Turkey's Top Court to Decide Fate of Islamic Party; Ban Could Rankle Europe, Weaken Bid For EU Membership

From: The Washington Post | Date: December 14, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Turkey's highest court began deliberations this week on the state's final offensive to outlaw the country's main Islamic party and expel its members from parliament, which could force the government's collapse and trigger new elections.

Prosecutors launched the case against the Virtue Party, Turkey's largest opposition party with 103 members in parliament, in May 1999, saying the organization was an illegal reincarnation of the Welfare Party, an Islamic political group that had been banned 16 months earlier. Both parties have been accused of violating Turkey's secular democracy by advocating ...

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