Monday, March 31, 2008

All of Turkish government being sued out of power.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7321964.stm

This lawsuit highlights the fear that staunch "secularists" in Turkey posses of religion. The reason I put quotes around secularists is because secularism is supposed to be neutral toward all religions, Turkish folks (although a minority) seem to have taken it to a whole different level, however.

To summarize, the ruling party in Turkey AKP has recently "relax[ed] the rules on the Islamic headscarf.", this (in addition to some other reforms that the party has undertaken over the years) has been seen as an attack on "secular Turkey", hence, despite the fact that AKP won 47% of Turkish votes in the last election, the court is still going to consider AKP's ban from politics.

How is that for a doze of democracy?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7321964.stm

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