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Article: Bouncing back.(CURRENT AFFAIRS)(Justice and Development Party)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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WHEN TURKEY'S CONSTITUTIONAL Court judges ruled that they would not after all be banning the country's ruling party, the exhalation of breath around a much-relieved country was practically audible.
The ruling appeared to end months--if not years--of speculation over the future. Yet Turkey is far from out of the woods. The Court effectively reserved the right to try the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) all over again for the same thing if it wanted to. At the same time, the government of Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan faces a series of tough, old challenges, along with a rash of new ones. To take the last group of ...