"Forcibly re-secularizing Turkey will only backfire
By Alfred Stepan
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
The chief prosecutor of Turkey's High Court of Appeals recently recommended to the country's Constitutional Court that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) be permanently banned. Only last July, the AKP was overwhelmingly re-elected in free and fair elections to lead the government. The chief prosecutor also formally recommended that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Abdullah Gul, and 69 other leading politicians be banned from politics for five years."
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