Tuesday, November 20, 2012

TURKEY: AK PARTY

Turkey is increasingly being pushed towards a new kind of extremism

Senior members of the AK party believe odds are staked heavily against them as most of the 11 Judges hearing the case represent the secular intellectual strata that sees AK as a threat to Kemal’s legacy. Nevertheless experts want to differ. “On what base is the court bearing in mind the closure: a compendium of anecdotes from the unfriendly press? The case is so dubious it is tough to envisage that even the staunchest Kemalists take it at face value,” says Mark R. Parris, a retired career diplomat and an expert at the Brookings Institution’s Turkey Project, while talking to B&E.

AK party has pinned hope on the European Union (EU) to mediate and defuse the matter. EU on its part has criticised the case, saying that the kind of charges raised by the chief prosecutor should be debated in Parliament, not courts


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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