Judges to decide fate of Turkey’s ruling party

Article reports that Turkey’s senior judges were to meet on 28 July 2008 to begin the hearings in a bitterly divisive case that could result in the closure of the governing party and see Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister, given a long ban from party politics.

ESO: Background information http://www.europeansources.info/record/turkish-court-case-worries-eu/

ESO: Background information http://www.europeansources.info/record/turkish-court-upholds-headscarf-ban/

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