(01 Apr 08 - RV) Turkey's top court agreed yesterday to hear a petition to shut down
the ruling AK Party and bar the prime minister from office, in a case centred on the
government's bid to relax the rules against wearing the Islamic headscarf.
Seculartists
fear the ruling AKP is trying to move Turkey toward rule by Islamic law, while the
ruling party argues the case against it is an attack on democracy.
A political
science professor at Sabaria University in Istanbul, Sabri Sayari says the case revives
an old struggle…