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Crisis talks over Turkish ruling
by Dave Keating | June 6, 2008 at 04:12 am | 101 views | add comment | 0 recommendations
A cosntitutional court has blocked a law passed by Turkey's new ruling party, which has a religious bent, allowing women to wear headscarves in public schools. The ruling party, AK, is now holding an emergency meeting to decide its next move. Turkey, a historically fiercely secular country, has recently been seeing increasing internal conflict over the increasing religiosity in the country.
Turkey's prime minister will chair an emergency meeting after his party's landmark measure, allowing students to wear headscarves, was blocked.
The Constitutional Court said the move to overturn a ban on scarves violated the constitution's secular principles.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is meeting AK Party officials on Friday to discuss the next step.
Correspondents say the court ruling could foreshadow the outcome of a case in which the AK Party could be banned.
Turkey's chief prosecutor says the ruling AKP is "the focal point of anti-secular activities", and is seeking to have it disbanded.
June 6, 2008 at 04:12 am by Dave Keating, 101 views, add comment
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