Baykal: "I don't trust the AKP with secularism"

Speaking at his party's group meeting yesterday, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal lambasted both the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) for their plan to lift the ban on headscarves at universities. "They tell us to trust them with secularism," he said, "I would trust liver to a cat, but I wouldn't trust you with secularism." In related news, opposition Democratic Left Party (DSP) leader Zeki Sezer paid a visit to Baykal. Afterwards, Sezer said that constitutional changes to lift the ban would be rejected by the Constitutional Court.