Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised a proposal to ban his ruling AK Party as being against the "national will".RTWT.
He was speaking after Turkey's chief prosecutor asked the country's Constitutional Court to ban the party, accusing it of anti-secular activities.
Turkey's secularist constitution does not allow any religious influence on the operation of the state.
The AK Party, which has Islamist roots, won last year's general elections.
In announcing his indictment, prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya said he believed there was enough evidence to show the party had contravened Turkey's secular constitution.
He also revealed the party had been under investigation for six months.
Ever since Erdogan took power in 2002 (just before the Iraq War) Turkey has been a half-assed ally: Erdogan's government denied us access to Iraq from Turkey, and has looked the other way as Iran shipped missiles via Turkey to Syria and Hizballah. Sarkozy opposes their membership in the EU for many good reasons. Recently they have been becoming less Western and more Muslim. (Just like Europe, sadly!)
I hope the Turkish Constitutional Court rules that the party violates the constitution and bans them.
Other Muslim nations should follow suit - and become MORE secularized. But they won't: Islam is at it's very core a political and martial creed as much or more than a religion.
STAY TUNED...
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