Turkey’s ruling party survived an attempt to oust it from power in a landmark court judgment on Wednesday, pulling the country back from a bitterly divisive battle over Islam and Turkey’s secular constitution.

The constitutional court rej­ected a prosecutor’s demand that the Justice and Development party, the AKP, be closed after he accused it of undermining Turkey’s secular state with a stealth agenda to impose sharia law. The court found the party guilty, but imposed only financial penalties.