HÜRRIYET: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) vowed to quit if the public support to the party falls sharply in March 2009 local elections, according to the reasoning of closure case, Hurriyet daily wrote on Sunday.
"We did not come to power by force. We do not say that we will not quit if we lose (the elections). We did not win everywhere in Turkey... If an inexplicable fall occurs, -we experienced these in 1989 elections-, then it is not consistent with the nature of democracy that you still stay in power. It brings political debates, " Hurriyet quoted the Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek as saying in the party's verbal defense he submitted to the constitutional court. >>> | Sunday, October 26, 2008
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