"Ruling may undermine reform
By IBON VILLELABEITIA, ReutersDecember 14, 2009
Turkey's judiciary has emerged as the chief line of defence of an establishment that sees the country's secularist order threatened by EU-driven reforms that have humbled the hardline military.
The Constitutional Court banned the only Kurdish party in parliament on Friday, a decision that could kill off Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's reforms aimed at ending decades of conflict with Kurdish separatists."
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