Top Court of Turkey did not close the rulling party; Justice and Development Party, instead choose the middle way by sending a serious warning to the party because of the actions of the members of AK Party and also decided that the party will only receive the half of the financial support from the state of Turkey.
Six members of the Constitutional Court voted for the closure of the party and the Chairperson of the Court Hasim Kilic voted against the closure of the party. Four member of the court voted for the reduction of the financial support to AK Party in order to warn members of the party. In normal conditions, for the closure of party, there needs to be 7 votes in favour of the closure. At the end, the final decision is Justice and Development Party (AK Party) will deprived of the financial assistance with an amount of half of the last assistance from treasure of the state.
Chairperson of the court Hasim Kilic also stated that “this is a serious warning for the AKP” and “political parties should make the necessary legal arrangements to avoid any further party closure cases”. Kilic who stated that he voted against the closure of the party also stated“. I hope the party will evaluate this result very well and get the message it should get”.
While the main opposition party Deputy of Republican People’s Party (CHP) Onur Oymen stated “this is a meaningful warning for the ruling party, Chairperson of the Parliament Koksal Toptan stated “this is a serious relief will be felt in Turkey”.
Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey started Justice and Development Party in 2001 after in his first election on Nov 3 2002, the party got the 34 % of the whole voters and started it’s first term. In the last election on 22nd of July, 2007, Justice and Development Party got the 42 % of the whole votes in Turkey by naming a great victory. At the same time, the parties actions claimed to be against secular system in Turkey and the party is still in the spot point of Islamic movement which is named as “conservative Islamism” in Turkey.
While Erdogan does seem to be successful in the voting boxes but his failure still continues in gaining the trust of almost half of the country, who are still in doubt about Erdogan’s actions, such as allocating the economical sources and the main authorities of the state to “conservative Islamist” people rather than being equal to people from different religions, beliefs, ethnicities and backgrounds.
Gokhan KURTARAN
Photo: Cihan News Agency
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