Word: antisecular
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...returned to power in a snap election he called in July 2007 in response to a possible coup threat by the army. This July, the AKP won a court case brought by the nation's chief prosecutor, who sought to outlaw the party on the grounds that it was antisecular. But these political struggles have been an awkward distraction at a critical time, and may have scared off potential foreign investors. In a report this month, Wolfango Piccoli, a Turkey expert at consultants Eurasia Group, wrote: "Despite its large parliamentary majority and past pragmatism, the government has remained essentially idle...
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