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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Judges to decide fate of Turkish party

"Judges to decide fate of Turkish party

By Vincent Boland in Ankara

Published: July 23 2008 03:00 | Last updated: July 23 2008 03:00

Turkey's senior judges are to meet on July 28 to begin the hearings in a bitterly divisive case that could result in the closure of the governing party and see Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, given a long ban from party politics."

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