Addressing a meeting of parliamentary deputies from his Republican People’s Party (CHP) in Ankara, Deniz Baykal said that when the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) faced charges the AKP called on them to have faith in the justice system. However, now the AKP has been touched in the same way, it is taking a different stand, he said.
Baykal stressed that the CHP did not welcome the court case against AKP. “Although the case is opened with just cause it was a blow to democracy,’he said.
There were great contradictions between the practices carried out by the ruling party and the constitutional law in place in Turkey, said Baykal The present crisis had been caused by the ruling party not having accepted secularism in Turkey, he said.
Last Friday, the chief prosecutor of the Court of Appeals filed a case with the Constitutional Court seeking to have the AKP closed on the grounds that it was a focus for anti-secular activities and was undermining the secular regime in Turkey.
