Turkey's chief prosecutor, Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, who spearheaded a court case last year to ban AK, has seized on the affair to threaten to investigate whether the wiretaps were in breach of the constitution.

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Critics claim the mechanism is tantamount to German taxpayers funding foreign governments in breach of the country's constitution.

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He appealed to the Supreme Court, claiming that forcing him to take the drugs would breach his rights under the first, fifth and sixth amendments of the constitution.

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