Friday, March 21, 2008

Erdogan Says Turkey Won't Accept Closure of Justice Party

"Erdogan Says Turkey Won't Accept Closure of Justice Party

By Ben Holland

March 21 (Bloomberg) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the nation won't accept the closure of his Justice and Development Party, elected in a landslide in July.

Attempts by prosecutors to shut down Justice and ban Erdogan from politics for undermining secularism ```can't be reconciled with the law or the conscience of the nation,'' Erdogan told regional chiefs of the party at a meeting in Ankara today."

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