"Turkish court says PM involved in anti-secularism
Fri 24 Oct 2008, 6:31 GMT
By Selcuk Gokoluk
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's top court singled out Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and a few allies for criticism on Friday when it explained why it had fined the governing AK Party for undermining Turkey's secular principles.
By specifically blaming Erdogan, Turkey's most popular politician, the Constitutional Court statement is likely to renew tensions in the EU candidate country at a time when it is trying to limit the impact of a global financial crisis."
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