The ruling party (recently re-elected with 47% of the vote) is about to be abolished by the courts, and a prosecutor has charged 86 people with plotting a coup.
An adviser to Turkey's Constitutional Court has recommended that it should not shut down the ruling AK Party for anti-secular activities, officials say.
In a non-binding report, Osman Can said the AKP's decision to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves had only been intended to expand freedoms, they add.
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