Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya was a high ranked Turkish

Turkish people

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 judge and currently the Chief Public Prosecutor of the High Court of Appeals of Turkey.

Justice and Development Party closure case

As the highest ranked Public Prosecutor of Turkey and a staunch republican, Yalçınkaya brought charges against the Justice and Development Party

Justice and Development Party (Turkey)

The Justice and Development Party , abbreviated JDP in English and AK PARTİ or AKP in Turkish, is a centre-right political party in Turkey. The party is the largest in Turkey, with 327 members of parliament...

 (AKP) on 14 March, 2008 to the Constitutional Court of Turkey, demanding that the party be closed and its 71 officials barred from politics for five years. Those officials include the current president

President

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 Abdullah Gül

Abdullah Gül

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 and the prime minister

Prime minister

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 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been Prime Minister of Turkey since 2003 and is chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party , which holds a majority of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He graduated in 1981 from Marmara...

. The court confirmed that the party has been an axis of actions against secular democracy, but decided not to close the party, imposing a financial penalty as a warning instead.

External links

• Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya, High Court of Appeals.