Turkey’s constitutional court has decided unanimously that it can hear a case aimed at closing down the country’s governing AK Party.

The chief prosecutor earlier filed a petition calling for the party to be closed for “anti-secular activities”.

He also wants dozens of its members, including the prime minister and president, to be banned from politics.

The case revives a battle between Turkey’s secularist establishment and the AK Party of devout Muslims.

‘Attack on democracy’

The case against the AKP runs to 162 pages: a long list of what the chief prosecutor says is proof the government has an Islamic agenda.

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