Turkish court could oust opposition leader in deepening political crisis

By Huseyin Hayatsever and Jonathan Spicer

ANKARA (Reuters) -A Turkish court will decide on Monday whether to oust the head of the main opposition, in what some see as a test of the country’s shaky balance between democracy and autocracy after a nearly year-long legal crackdown on the party.

Hundreds of members of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) have been jailed pending trial in a sprawling probe into alleged corruption and terrorism links, among them President Tayyip Erdogan’s main…