İNDİRMEK İÇİN TIKLAYINIZ
When evaluated as a whole, the indictment calls for a political system where parties,
who are responsible for voicing the people’s pleas, remain indifferent and unresponsive
to social and political problems. It is not possible to say that the statements or acts that
are put forward in the indictment as “evidence” threaten the pro-freedom, democratic
and secular system. On the contrary, demanding closure of a political party on the
basis of this so-called “evidence” threatens to carry Turkish democracy to a monophonic
and proscriptive dimension.
As explained in detail above, since there are no anti-secular acts or even rhetoric that
can be attributed to the AK Party, one cannot talk about it being “a center” for acts
against secularism but rather about the existence of “an error of perception based on
delusions” on the part of the state prosecutor. The statements mentioned, which when
considered individually do not contradict the principles of secularism, and would
certainly not, even were they to be repeated thousands of times, make a political party a
center of action against the Constitution.
The AK Party is not the center of actions against secularism but it is a center for
people working to serve our country and nation.
In conclusion, we respectively submit to the discretion of the Constitutional Court that
the case opened demanding the closure of the AK Party be rejected.
April 30, 2008
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President
Justice and Development Party
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