Turkey's former leader to be arrested

A top Turkish court ordered former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan be placed under house arrest today, CNN Turk TV said.

A top Turkish court ordered former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan be placed under house arrest today, CNN Turk TV said.

Ten years ago Turkey's Constitutional Court shut down Mr Erbakan's then ruling Welfare Party, a forerunner of the ruling, centre-right AK Party, on the grounds that it sought to overthrow Turkey's secular system and set up an Islamist state.

The Court of Appeals ruled 11 months of house arrest for Erbakan. His arrest has previously been postponed four times due to his poor health.

Mr Erbakan was sentenced in 2000 to a year in jail for "provoking hatred" in a 1994 speech and he was banned from politics after courts shut down his Welfare Party.