Representatives of Turkey's ruling AK party have appeared before the country's highest court in Ankara in a bid to avoid their party being banned.
Chief Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya launched his case against the governing AK party in March, saying it should be banned for seeking to replace Turkey's secular system with Sharia law. Yalcinkaya also demanded that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and 70 other party members should be barred from party politics for five years. The AK party, which has its roots in a now banned Islamist movement, has rejected all the charges and argued that the case was politically motivated and "fictional".
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