"Turkey's ruling party to stand trial for being "too religious"
Osman Paksut, deputy chairman of Turkey's Constitutional Court, announces the court?s decision to hear a case for a ban of the country?s ruling party, the AKP
By Nicholas Birch in Istanbul
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Turkey's highest court has voted to hear a case to close down the country's ruling party, in a move that looks set to open the bitterest bout yet in a 50-year war pitting popularly-elected governments against the secular establishment."
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