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CHP Leader Baykal: “This Is A Bomb; We Will See Where It Will Explode”
 Leader of the main opposition party CHP accused AKP on Tuesday of undermining the Republic's principle of secularism through a series of constitutional amendments, referring to AKP’s efforts to evade prosecution and closure through a set of legal measures to change the laws. Baykal told his party’s deputies, “They will eliminate the sensitive approach of our Constitution toward secularism. Taking these amendments to a referendum would mean taking the principle of secularism to referendum. Secularism was not put in the Constitution through a referendum. Trying to remove it from the Constitution through a vote would lead the country into a very dangerous path”. He added, “It is a bomb, and we will see where it will explode”. Baykal also slammed the government for the detention - and the manner in which it was carried - of prominent journalist Ilhan Selçuk, politician Dogu Perincek and former Istanbul University rector, Kemal Alemdaroglu, on charges of being members of the 'Ergenkon' criminal organization. He said that such things had happened during the post coup d’etat periods, during the military junta, when respectable persons were taken into custody by similar methods just to spread fear and to intimidate people. Source: Turkish Daily News, March 26, 2008
Posted at: 2008-03-26
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