"Turkish court to deliberate whether ruling party should be banned for Islamic principles
ISTANBUL, Turkey: Turkey's top court convenes Monday to decide whether the country's popular ruling party must be banned on charges that it is steering the secular nation toward Islamic rule.
Turkey's chief prosecutor asked the Constitutional Court in March to disband Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party and bar him and 70 other party members from joining a political party for five years."
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