Turkish president to meet opposition leaders in effort to ease tension

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Güncelleme: 15:03 TSİ 26 Mart 2008 Çarşamba

ANKARA - Turkey’s president Abdullah Gul is to meet with the leaders of the country’s two main opposition parties in an effort to try and defuse growing political tensions.

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President Gul’s office announced the head of state would meet separately with Deniz Baykal, the chairman of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), and the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahceli on Thursday.

Tensions increased on March 14, when a senior prosecutor filed an indictment with the Constitutional Court seeking to have the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) closed on the grounds it was undermining secularism in Turkey.

Prior to this, the AKP, with the support of the MHP passed amendments to the constitution easing the ban on women wearing the Islamic headscarf while attending university.