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March 31st, 2008
Posted: 12:37 PM ET

 ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) — Turkey’s constitutional court agreed Monday to hear a case that could shut down the ruling AK Party and ban 71 of its members from politics, including the president and prime minister.

Turkey’s chief prosecutor, Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, asked the country’s constitutional court to consider the case over two weeks ago, setting up a political struggle with the government.

Yalcinkaya accuses the government of violating Turkey’s secular constitution with what he called anti-secular practices, including a recent lift on a headscarf ban in public universities.


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