"Turkey wrestles with Islam’s place
March 19th, 2008
Imagine trying to ban a fairly elected ruling party, which won in a landslide only last year. Ludicrous. Yet such an attempt is now before Turkey’s highest court on the grounds that secular government should not push Islam on society.
It is not out of the realm of possibility that the court will decide to hear this case, which was brought March 14 by Turkey’s chief prosecutor. And if it does, it may favor the prosecutor, who charges the Islamic Party of Justice, or AKP, with subverting the country’s secular Constitution. Since the 1970s, the court has shuttered four pro-Islamic parties."
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