akp leader ahmet davutoğlu denied the claims and called for kılıçdaroğlu to meet with him to put forward a constitutional amendment that would make it impossible for a political party to be shut down by the courts. this led to speculation that the closure case threat was in fact an attempt by the akp to amend the constitution and avoid any closure cases against themselves in the future, having narrowly survived one in 2008 and an earlier case in 2001.