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Turkey's AKP defends itself against anti-secular charges
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Xinhua News Agency
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July 3, 2008
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Turkey's AKP defends itself against anti-secular charges
ANKARA, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's Islamist-rooted ruling
Justice and Development Party (AKP) is defending itself in the
country's highest court Thursday against charges that it had sought
to undermine the secular system and should be closed down.
The chief prosecutor is demanding that the ruling party be
disbanded and that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and 70 other
party members be barred from joining a political party for five
years.
In the closure case against the AKP, the Constitutional Court has
been listening to State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Cemil
Cicek and AKP Deputy Group Chairman Bekir Bozdag on Thursday.