"Dumb and dumber: Crushing Turkey's AKP
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MARCUS GEE
July 18, 2008
The most hopeful democratic experiment in the Islamic world is at risk. Members of Turkey's secular establishment are threatening to shut down the country's popular six-year-old government. In a case before the Constitutional Court to be decided within weeks, they claim that the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) is trying to violate the strict ban on religion in public life and impose Islam on Turkish institutions."
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