SIMPLE: THE MILITARY IS STAUNCHLY SECULARIST AND MIGHT HAVE TO STAGE A COUP TO REMOVE THE RULING ISLAMIST PARTY IN THE EVENT THAT THE TURKISH SUPREME COURT OUTLAWS THEM.
A TURKISH SUPREME COURT DECISION TODAY MAKES IT MORE LIKELY THEY WILL OUTLAW THE AKP...
NYTIMES: Court Annuls Turkish Headscarf Bill
Turkey's ruling AK party appeared to move a step closer to being shut down on Thursday when the Constitutional Court overturned a reform that would have allowed women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities.IN THE NEXT YEAR, TURKEY MIGHT TURN OUT TO BE AS A BIG POINT OF CONFLICT IN THE GWOT AS THE WEST'S CONFRONTATION WITH IRAN.
The headscarf amendment plays a central role in a separate, crucial case that seeks to outlaw the AK Party for anti-secular activities, and ban 71 members, including the prime minister and president, from belonging to a political party for five years.
"This guarantees the closure of the party. I don't think we can talk of any calm before full chaos," said Cengiz Aktar, a political scientist at Istanbul's Bahcesehir University.
The court said in a statement it upheld, by 9 votes to 2, an appeal from the main opposition CHP party, seeking to block a legal amendment allowing students to wear the garment on campus.
More conservative secularists saw the amendment as a violation of strict separation between Mosque and state, and evidence the AK Party has a secret agenda to introduce a system of Islamic law.
STAY TUNED.
2 comments:
Are these "activist judges?"
HA!
these judges are not activists.
and they already banned the precursor of the AKP several years back.
the secularist tradition goes back to ataturk and the foundation of the turkish nation.
the akp is trying to undo that using creeping sharia.
in turkey, the highest court will protect secularism.
unlike in the EU. which seems to kowtow to agents of creeping sharia.
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