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Turkey faces difficult summer as AKP case goes to court

By Burak Akinci - Agence France-Presse ANKARA – Turkey faces a politically long, hot summer with its Islamist-rooted governing party on trial before the country s highest court under threat of closure on charges of seeking to undermine secularism. The…read more

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Art Leonard: California Supreme Court Suit Seeks Invalidation of Anti-Marriage Initiative

Monday, June 23, 2008 A coalition of LGBT rights groups and law firms filed suit in the California Supreme Court on June 20, seeking to have a proposed initiative to ban marriage for same-sex couples excluded from the general election…read more

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PRESIDENT DEMANDED TO SERIOUSLY PREPARE CANDIDATE FROM THE GOVERNMENT

Jakarta, Kompas - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was demanded to start the selection process of the constitutional justice candidates…read more

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CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PIONEERING TRANSPARENCY IN COURT VIA VIDEO CONFERENCE IN UNIVERSITIES

by : M. Yamin Panca Setia "BELI ketupat dan kue talam. Simpan di kulkas agar tak basi. Rapat komisi dari pagi…read more

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POSITION AS LEARNING-TEACHING AND TRANSPARENCY MEDIA

All public offices should also be functioned as learning-teaching media because the world is changing rapidly. read more

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Turkey s ruling AKP rejects all claims in "Google case"

The closure case filed against Turkey s ruling AKP was a "Google case", the AKP said in its case defense, claiming the top prosecutor collected evidence by doing a Google search. The Constitutional Court sent the AKP defense to the…read more

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Secularism Vs Democracy in Turkey

Pierre Atlas Mon Jun 16, 12:35 AM ET ISTANBUL--Western scholars and pundits often debate whether Islam and democracy are compatible. In Turkey, a Muslim-majority country that straddles Europe and Asia culturally as well as geographically, the fundamental question may…read more

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TUAL CITY ACT. CONSTITUTIONAL COURT STATED THE PETITION UNACCEPTED

The Constitutional Court (Mahkamah Konstitusi (MK)) stated the petition of case 31/PUU-V/2007 was unaccepted (niet ontvankelijk verklaard). It is because the Petitioners could not show their capacity to legally represent as a customary law society and the Petitioners could not…read more

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CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CAN DIRECTLY ANNULLED A PRESIDENT CANDIDATE

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Court to decide whether top officials can be sued

By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether top government officials can be sued for the alleged abuse of a Pakistani Muslim arrested and jailed after Sept. 11, 2001. The case, arising from…read more