Posted on 19/07/08
No legal coup d'état here
Mississauga, Ont. -- Turkey's constitutional court is just as much a democratic institution as its government. So the court's rejection of the AKP government's attempt this year to lift a head-scarf ban, similar to that of France and upheld by the European Court of Human Rights, is no more a "legal coup d'état" than when Canada's Supreme Court rules against our government (Dumb And Dumber: Crushing Turkey's AKP - July 18).
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