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China Daily | Updated: 2008-10-25 08:19
Ruling against PM
Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was involved in anti-secular activities, a top court said on Friday, explaining a decision to fine his AK Party.
The constitutional court's legal reasoning marks the first time a sitting prime minister in predominantly Muslim Turkey has been blamed by the court for undermining the country's secular principles.
(China Daily 10/25/2008 page11)
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