Turkish media speculate that the chief prosecutor might seek to ban the prime minister in a separate legal case as the post-closure case scenarios start to circulate in the capital Ankara.
In one scenario, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his governing party may face a new attempt to ban them from politics, Vatan daily reported on its website, citing a news report in the pro-government Taraf daily. According to the report, the country’s chief prosecutor, Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya will file a new case against the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) and would demand the closure of the party or banning Erdogan from politcs. Yalcinkaya is expected to take such step after the reasoning of the Constitutional Court's ruling is made public. Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled against the demands to close the governing party in its critical ruling on July 30. However the court ruled with an overwhelming majority that the AKP had become focal point of anti-secular activities and issued a “serious warning”. The reasoning would shed a light on which grounds the court had ruled that the party is harming secularism, but not to the extent it deserved to be closed. With the details of the ruling in the closure case, Yalcinkaya would seek to have the officials, whose remarks and acts deemed as anti-secular, expelled from the party in his new legal attempt. |
