 Across Asia: Turkey
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-02 07:41 Ruling party asked to close Turkey's Chief Prosecutor outlined his case yesterday for having the governing AK Party closed on charges of seeking to establish an Islamic state. The chief prosecutor of the Court of Appeal made a 90- minute oral presentation before a panel of Constitutional Court judges, said a court official who declined to be named. The Islamist-rooted AK Party will make its presentation to the court tomorrow. Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya says the party should be closed for anti-secular activities and 71 leading figures, including Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul, banned from party membership for five years. (China Daily 07/02/2008 page11) |
