Turky wants to bann muslims from any Jobs

[Abdur_Rahman]

WIRE:09/05/2000 08:52:00 ET
Turk justice min challenges
army Islamist charges



ISTANBUL, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Turkey"s
justice minister on Tuesday challenged the
powerful military to back up its claims that
Islamist radicals seeking to overturn the
secular order had infiltrated the country"s
judiciary. Pressure for a crackdown on
political Islam in Turkey has mounted in
recent weeks. An official of Turkey"s
Constitutional Court on Tuesday told
Reuters the court may rule in October on a bid to close the
main Islamist opposition Virtue party for allegedly seeking
to overturn Turkey"s secular order. Chief of General Staff
Huseyin Kivrikoglu last week urged Turkey"s government
to press ahead with plans to purge suspected radicals from
the ranks of the civil service, warning "they have spread
everywhere...they have seeped into the judiciary." Justice
Minister Hikmet Sami Turk, without mentioning the armed
forces, called on those alleging Islamist influence in the
judiciary to back their claims. "Anyone who has evidence
of judges and prosecutors taking part in illegal activity, of
acting counter to the principles of the republic, is obligated
to bring evidence, if it exists, to officials of the Justice
Ministry," he said in remarks broadcast by the private NTV
television channel. "Those making allegations about judges
and prosecutors at the highest level of the judiciary must
rely on hard evidence." Turk"s comments seemed to mark
growing differences over the means of combating political
Islam between some civilian officials and the military
establishment, which has toppled three governments in
coups since 1960.

[Wais_Islam]

Allah plans and Satan plans, and Allah is the best of all planners....

[Anti-Muslim]

Welldone Turkey!!
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[This message has been edited by Anti-Muslim (edited 10 September 2000).]