Baykal: "The AKP's crisricisms of the headscarf ruling were very arrogant"

Speaking at his main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) Central Executive Board (MYK) meeting, CHP leader Deniz Baykal accused the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of "arrogance" in its criticisms of last week's Constitutional Court ruling upholding the university headscarf ban. Baykal also called insults by some AKP members of Constitutional Court members "unacceptable." "They try to create an atmosphere suggesting that either secularism or democracy can exist in society, but this isn't the case," he said. "There can be no democracy without secularism. We are striving to spread secularism."