"Turkey : President urges reflection after ruling party escapes ban
President Abdullah Gul urged a period of reflection on Turkey’s warring political parties in an interview on August 2, after a court ruling spared the governing Islamist-rooted party from being banned.
“Everybody, all of us, need to make self-criticism and show empathy to others... The country is tired”, Gul told the popular Milliyet newspaper.
But “while cooling down, we must not forget that there are fences to be mended”, he added.
On july 30 the Constitutional Court narrowly rejected a bid to outlaw the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) for undermining the secular system, but rapped it with financial sanctions which it described as a “serious warning” to the party to toe the line."
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