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Mass trial of coup plotters in Turkey
been prosecuted for alleged links with Ergenekon. The ruling Ak Party says the organisation is attempting to seize power in Turkey. The opposition believes the Ak Party has invented Ergenekon ... with a strict separation of politics and religion. The opposition is afraid the Ak Party is out to abolish ...
Turkish court says president must face trial
Party, the predecessor of the current AK party. The president's office has rejected the accusations, saying that according to the constitution, the president can only be put on trial for treason. The AK party is regularly at loggerheads with the Turkish establishment, including many judges and soldiers who ...
Turkish prosecutor investigates Kurd party leader
with the nation's bid for EU membership. His Islamist rooted AK Party is locked in a long struggle ... went to the brink of banning the AK party in 2008 for contravening Turkey's secular constitution ... targeting the chairman of a banned Kurdish party on Tuesday after he said that a jailed militant separatist ...
Turkey court to hear Kurd party closure case
for the ruling AK Party in the predominantly Kurdish southeast in this year polls. Major raids on the pro ... the country's pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) on December 8th, the court said on Thursday. The case, based on allegations of DTP links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), comes as Turkey ...
Erdogan calls for unity after Kurdish party ban
since. Friday’s ruling threatens to undermine Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party ... for national unity after a court ban on the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP, caused angry protests ... of cooperating with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization ...
Islam is the new religion in rebellious Mexican state Chiapas
Location Chiapas Mexico Not a Bulletin none ...
Fifty-six more on trial in Turkish coup plot case
scheme by the military to discredit the ruling AK Party, and a new law that allows soldiers ... elite Many in Turkey's elite, including generals, judges and professors, fear the AK Party ... question whether the AK Party is misusing the judiciary, once a bastion of the secularist elite, to punish ...
Turkey ends deadlock over appointment of judges
's judiciary has traditionally been a bastion of the secularist elite, which suspects the ruling AK Party of having a hidden plan to undermine the country's secular principles. The AK Party, which has roots ... to trigger a coup against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. The AK Party and the secularist establishment ...
Gunmen kill Turkish soldiers in northern Turkey
were thrown at police and the offices of the ruling AK a party was pelted with rocks. Anti-riot police ... . It is not clear who was behind the attack but suspicions have fallen on the banned Kurdish Workers Party PKK ... . The attack comes one day before a Turkish court will consider a move to ban the largest Kurdish party ...
Kurds, Turkish nationalists clash in Istanbul
, threatens to undermine Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party's drive to reconcile minority Kurds ... on Sunday as around 200 Kurds protesting at the closure of a leading Kurdish party clashed with Turkish ... -Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), dealing a blow to government efforts to end decades of conflict in the EU ...
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