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Turkey's Justice and Development Party | AK Party (AK Parti)

Turkey's Justice and Development Party | AK Party (AK Parti)
Who opposes Erdoğan’s reforms? A weird case in Turkish politics

| Opinion
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s emphasis on “a fresh mobilization for the economy, the law and …
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    Opinion

    Once again, Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, started a new debate over early elections. This time around, he urged Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chairperson Devlet Bahçeli, whose movement is part of the pro-government People’s Alliance, to say “enough is enough” and lead the country to elections. Kılıçdaroğlu’s message was an obvious, yet timid, response to Bahçeli’s earlier call on the Good Party’s (IP) Meral Akşener to return home. Former Finance Minister Ali Babacan, who currently chairs the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), echoed the same sentiment, in a meeting with Kılıçdaroğlu and claimed that Turkey’s current system of government would not last until June 2023.
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    Through a wide range of articles and commentaries, this issue aims to bring to its readers a comprehensive framework on the transformation of Turkey’s Defense Industry and changing patterns of its military strategy.

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  • President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, members of the government, opposition leaders and other officials attend a ceremony commemorating the 81st anniversary of the death of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, at his mausoleum in capital Ankara, Nov. 10, 2019. (AFP Photo)

    Western media’s opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is possibly the world’s worst kept secret. Western commentators immediately jump to conclusions about the supposedly expansionist goals of Erdoğan’s Turkey whenever Ankara launches a fresh foreign policy initiative. Experts in Washington, Paris, Athens, Abu Dhabi and elsewhere make the same arguments in an attempt to contain Turkey’s influence to an unbearable extent. At the heart of those comments lies the claim that the Turkish president has isolated his country in the international arena, which will lead the nation to a disaster and that the Turkish people deserve better.

  • President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wearing a face mask, as a precaution against the coronavirus, waves at his supporters in the Black Sea city of Rize, northern Turkey, Aug. 15, 2020. (AP Photo)

    The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) celebrated its 19th birthday earlier this week. Over the course of its history, the movement has single-handedly governed Turkey – an accomplishment that has eluded all others in the history of the country’s multi-party democracy.

  • AK Party Years in Turkey | Domestic and Foreign Policy

    This volume addresses the domestic and foreign policy transformations in Turkey that took place over the course of the past two decades under the AK Party.

  • Turkey

    Turkey’s party politics cannot seem to lose momentum. Two new political movements have recently emerged out of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party). Now, the Republican People's Party (CHP), which just held its 37th Congress, faces the same possibility.

  • President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R), ministers and army commanders follow a guard of honor at the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk before a meeting of the High Military Council in capital Ankara, July 23, 2020. (AP Photo)

    After many years of waiting, Turkey’s Muslims rejoiced at the opportunity to perform their Friday and Eid prayers at the Hagia Sophia. That joy, to nobody’s surprise, went hand in hand with a war of words between Turkish politicians. Critics speculated that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s administration intended to “restore the caliphate,” claiming that Turkey’s top imam had “cursed” Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the republic’s founder, in his Friday sermon.