Sentence examples for secular judges from inspiring English sources
The court, which is dominated by secular judges, voted without exception to consider the case.
He and his party narrowly survived a closure case launched by Turkey's militantly secular judges in 2008.
While President Asif Ali Zardari has yet to sign this agreement, religious judges have already started functioning in the area and secular judges have been threatened to not appear.
In addition, he assumed responsibility for assisting the ecclesiastical authorities in the suppression of heresy, a direct consequence of the oath imposed on secular judges, requiring them to investigate and extirpate heresy, a survival of Henry V's anti-Lollard legislation (CWM 6 1, 409; 8:1, 28).
The army also frets that a President Gul might approve several AK laws that were rejected as unconstitutional by the incumbent, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, a fiercely secular judge.
Aykut Cengiz Engin, Istanbul's chief prosecutor, said the group's alleged crimes included the murder of a secular judge in Ankara in 2006 by a gunman who said he was avenging a court ruling against the Islamic headscarf.
He asked the court to slap a five-year ban on more than 70 AK officials, including the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the president, Abdullah Gul.The court, dominated by pro-secular judges, said it would decide by April whether to proceed with the case.
The Turkish prime minister was talking about an unprecedented outburst by the chief of the general staff, General Hilmi Ozkok, after last week's shooting in a courtroom in Ankara that killed one pro-secular judge and wounded four others.
We were utterly appalled that they could say, without being prosecuted, that it is permitted to kill Arabs in order to create deterrence, that Jews should not rent apartments to Arabs, and that secular Jewish judges should not be allowed to try Jews.
Opponents of the president fear that Islamists want to get rid of secular-minded judges to consolidate the Muslim Brotherhood's power.
