Secularism’s red line
The fact that a court case aimed at closing down the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has even been opened despite the considerable support this party has received from the people of the nation inevitably brings this question to mind: I wonder if our chief prosecutor from the Supreme Court of Appeals has drawn the proverbial “red line” that determines whether or not secularism is actually threatened in the wrong place?
In the first place, when looking at the law, it is clear that the Supreme Court of Appeals chief prosecutor decides completely on his own authority and according to his own analysis just where this red line is to be drawn. In other words, the current laws give him quite a generous arena in which to operate. There is no doubt that in the end, it will be the Constitutional Court that decides the answer to the question of whether or not the prosecutor has drawn the red line in the right place.
15 May 2008, Thursday
?SMET BERKAN, RAD?KAL
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