Turkey's chief prosecutor asks the Constitutional Court to ban Turkey's ruling party

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• BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Turkish PM attacks proposed ban

I never really thought of Turkey as being a banana republic; I'm beginning to reconsider. How can a party democratically elected to government be against the "national will"???

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The law in Turkey works in mysterious ways

Muslim lawyer sues over Inter Milan 'Crusaders' kit

A Turkish lawyer is taking legal action against Inter Milan, the Italian football team, for wearing a strip with “Crusader-style” red crosses that he alleges is ”offensive to Muslim sensibilities”.

Baris Kaska, a lawyer in Izmir who specialises in European law, said that he had lodged a complaint in a local court against Inter Milan, which last month played the Istanbul team Fenerbahce in a Champions League match at the San Siro stadium in Milan. The Inter players wore a new strip - a white shirt with a giant red cross on it - marking the club's centenary.

Mr Kaska said he was not only seeking damages but was also appealing to Uefa to annul the match, which Inter won 3-0. “That cross only brings one thing to mind - the symbol of the Templar Knights,” he said. “It made me think immediately of the bloody days of the past. While I was watching the game I felt profound grief in my soul.” Mr Kaska told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia that the cross symbolised “Western racist superiority over Islam”.

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And their academics remind me a lot of the kind you find in Fyrom

Belgians are Turks, says Turk academic

The Belgian people are descended from a part of the Oğuz Turks tribe who settled in the region thousands of years ago, said the head of Gaziantep University's Department of Medical Biology yesterday.

In a move that is destined to bring Belgians and Turks together as brothers, Professor Ahmet Arslan said that when the Selçuk part of the Oğuz tribe formed a state in Central Asia, their capital was called Genk, having the same name as the city of Genk in Belgium.

He also said the symbol of Genk Municipality was a double headed eagle, and added as his conclusive proof, “In the Selçuk tribe, the same symbol was used. One head symbolized Interior Oğuz while the other Exterior Oğuz.”

Referring to the city of Genk in Belgium, Arslan said: “There are many dark haired, light skinned people there. This is the basic characteristic of the Oğuz tribe.”

Arslan said Kurds were also a branch of the Oğuz Tribe. “I think the Kazıkurtları seen as part of the Oğuz tribe are linked to Kurds. Kurds appear to be from the Exterior Oğuz,” said the academic.The molecular genetic studies the department had conducted showed the main migration route from Central Asia followed the north west and west of the Caucasus Mountains, Arslan said. He said there were close blood ties between Europeans and Turks as a result of these tribal migrations.

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