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| Turkish Supreme Court begins Outlawing the Ruling Islamic Party |
| 2008-04-01 |
| The nation's constitutional court has taken a first step toward throwing the ruling AK party out of office. What prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya proposes in his bid for the history books is that the constitutional court close Turkey's ruling AK Party and thus remove a duly elected government. He also wants the court to ban Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul from politics for five years, along with 69 AK Party grandees. He charges that AK, which wants to remove a ban on headscarves, is "a focal point of antisecular activity." [and thus unconstitutional] Caution - other than the part I posted, the article is a huge (liberal) Newsweek spin article condemning the court for acting - the Author is a typical lefty statist from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. |
| Posted by:OldSpook |
| #5 That's because most of the nations and groups that dedicated themselves to the destruction of the US are either in the trash-heap of history or impotent. The Left doesn't many options available. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-04-01 18:21 |
| #4 I'm taking some perverse delight in the fact that the liberals have been reduced to defending the homophobic, women oppressing, anti-semitic, anti-democratic, anti-free speech Islamists. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-04-01 16:13 |
| #3 Don't the libs usually prefer rule by judicial fiat? |
| Posted by: Iblis 2008-04-01 15:52 |
| #2 Perhaps the author fears that, since the USA was created as a capitalist country, the Supremes could throw out anti-capitalist politicos? |
| Posted by: USMC6743 2008-04-01 13:02 |
| #1 We will see. Turkey, after WWI set itself up as a sectarian nation and, until recently, managed to keep the Islamic nuttiness from permeating its government core. I like the fact that the Turkish supreme court has enough balls too call a spade a spade and I hope they can deal the radical Islam party a death blow instead of judges being killed themselves. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-04-01 12:48 |