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TURKEY: DEMOCRACY NOT AT RISK, PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN SAYS
(ANSAmed) - ANKARA, JULY 4 - The political disputes Turkey has been going through for months will be resolved and democracy in the country is not at risk, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said today in Ankara, speaking to representatives of his party Justice and Development Party (AKP, pro-Islamic). The Prime Minister is currently engaged in a court battle to save from closing AKP, which has been accused of anti secular activity. A possible closing of the party and a five-year ban to participate in politics on 71 of its members - among them Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul - should lead to early elections in September but, probably, also to a period of political and economic uncertainty for Turkey. ''I want to repeat once again that in Turkey the democratic system with its institutions and regulations functions in accordance with the law. Turkey has been through such painful periods before and has solved its problems with its internal dynamics. There is no need to worry,'' the Prime Minister said in an address broadcast on television. (ANSAmed).