Turkey’s Court Meets Today
July 28th, 2008 by Sarah
Turkey’s highest court meets today to decide whether the AKP party should be banned as unconstitutional. BBC News reports that “if the party is closed down or large numbers of its senior members are banned from politics, it will deepen the political fault lines between AKP supporters and secularists,” and “could lead to a period of political instability.” In addition, BBC News notes that “the case has already caused uncertainty in Turkey’s stock market,” and that “a ban could harm Ankara’s long-running bid to join the European Union.”
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