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Justice And Development Party (turkey)

Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi
Justice and Development Party
LeaderRecep Tayyip Erdoğan
FoundedAugust 14, 2001
HeadquartersNo. 202 Balgat
Ankara, Turkey
Political IdeologyConservatism, Economic liberalism; elements of Muslim democracy
European AffiliationEuropean People's Party (observer)
International Affiliationnone
ColoursOrange, White
WebsiteAK Parti
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The Justice and Development Party (Turkish: Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi or AK Parti, or AKP[1]) is the ruling Turkish political party that describes itself as centre-right conservative party.

Brief background

The AKP portrays itself as a moderate, conservative, pro-Western party that advocates a liberal market economy and Turkish membership in the European Union.[2] The party's detractors accuse it of harboring a hidden Islamist agenda due to its deep roots in the religious community and the affiliations of some of its members with banned Islamic parties. The AKP won 46.6% of the popular vote and was allocated 341 seats[3] in the rescheduled 22 July, 2007 elections, a massive increase over the 34% of the vote it received in the 2002 general elections. [4]. Its leader, former Istanbul mayor Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is currently the Prime Minister of Turkey.

History

The Justice and Development Party emerged from the remnants of former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan's Welfare Party, which was forcibly dismantled four years after Erbakan's 1997 resignation as a result of the 1997 Army coup d'état. Erdoğan’s AKP altered the traditional focus of religiously-affiliated politics from concern over Turkey’s lack of Islamic characteristics to pushing for democratic and economic reforms in addition to stressing moral values through the communitarian-liberal consensus. Erdoğan also sought to temper his party’s Islamist image through building a broad-reaching coalition with members of center-right parties, and promising to further Turkey’s push to join the European Union. Erdoğan also positioned the AKP as the opposition party to the old, secular, state-driven development parties that had been proven ineffective by the repeated economic crises of the 1990s and early 2000s.

A faction of moderate conservative members within the old Welfare Party, known as Yenilikçiler, or in English, Reformist formed the Justice and Development Party on August 14, 2001, in an attempt to ground moderate conservative politics in a secular democratic framework. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the leader of the AKP, stated that "AKP is not a political party with a religious axis" when the party was founded.

After some initial stumbling, notably when Erdoğan was temporarily blocked from taking up the Prime Ministership, the AKP has found its feet. It survived the crisis over the 2003 invasion of Iraq despite a massive back bench rebellion where over a hundred AKP MPs joined those of the opposition Republican People's Party in parliament to prevent the government from allowing the United States to launch a Northern offensive in Iraq from Turkish territory.

The AKP has undertaken significant structural reforms and its policy achievements have seen rapid growth and an end to Turkey's three decade long period of hyperinflation—inflation had fallen to 8.8% by June 2004. Influential business publications, the Economist and the Financial Times, consider the AK Party's government the most successful in Turkey in decades.[5]

In the local elections of 2004, the AKP won an unprecedented 42% of the valid votes making inroads against the secular nationalist Republican People's Party (CHP) on the South and West Coasts, and against Social Democratic People's Party (Turkey) which is supported by some Kurds in the Southeast of Turkey.

In January 2005, the AKP was admitted as an observer member in the European People's Party (EPP), the conservative party of the EU. It is likely to become a full member of the EPP if Turkey is admitted to the EU. If the EU eventually rejects Turkey for membership, however, many fear that the AKP could again split between its reformist and conservative factions, heralding another period of instability in Turkish politics.

2007 General elections

See also: Turkish general election, 2007
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Map illustrating the party's performance at the 2007 general election by constituency.
The AKP achieved a landslide victory in the rescheduled July 22 2007 elections with 46.6% of the vote, translating into control of 340 of the 550 available parliamentary seats. Although the AKP received significantly more votes in 2007 than in 2002, the number of parliamentary seats they controlled decreased due to the rules of the Turkish electoral system. However, they retain a comfortable ruling majority. [6]

Territorially, the elections of 2007 saw a major advance for the AKP, with the party outpolling the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party in traditional Kurdish strongholds such as Van and Mardin, as well as outpolling the secular-left CHP in traditionally secular areas such as Antalya and Artvin. Overall, the AKP secured a plurality of votes in 68 of Turkey's 81 provinces, with its strongest vote of 71% coming from Bingöl. Its weakest vote, a mere 12%, came from Tunceli, the only Turkish province where the Alevi sect form a majority. [7]

Other information

The AKP draws particular support from the rural peasantry, and the children of rural peasants who have migrated to the major cities in millions. AKP has implemented strong social programs for the urban and rural poor, particularly at municipal level. Its supporters state that it seeks to emulate, in Islamic form, the Christian Democratic/Christian Social tradition of Central Europe, as exemplified by such parties as the CDU/CSU in Germany.

The party's logo, an incandescent light bulb, symbolizes light, electrical illumination and transparent government.[8]

References

1. ^ The former of the two abbreviations is the official one, as documented in the third article of the party charter, while the latter is mostly preferred by its opponents; since the word "ak" in Turkish means "white, clean, or unblemished" and therefore gives a positive impression about the party.
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Current major:Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi - AK PARTİ) • Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi - ANAP) • Great Union Party (Byk Birlik Partisi - BBP) • Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi - CHP) • Democratic Party (Demokrat Parti - DP) • Democratic Left Party (Demokratik Sol Parti - DSP) • Democratic Society Party (Demokratik Toplum Partisi - DTP) • Young Party (Gen Parti - GP) • Nationalist Movement Party (Milliyeti Hareket Partisi - MHP) • Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi - SP)
Current minorMain Path Party (Anayol Partisi) • Eurasia Party (Avrasya Partisi) • Bright Turkey Party (Aydınlık Trkiye Partisi ATP) • Independent Republican Party (Bağımsız Cumhuriyet Partisi BCP) • Independent Turkey Party (Bağımsız Trkiye Partisi - BTP) • Great Justice Party (Byk Adalet Partisi BAP) • Great Turkey Party (Byk Trkiye Partisi) • Labour Party (Emek Partisi- EMEP) • Workers' Party (İşi Partisi - İP) • Liberal Democratic Party • (Liberal Demokrat Parti - LDP) • Freedom and Solidarity Party (zgrlk ve Dayanışma Partisi - DP) • Social Democratic People's Party (Sosyaldemokrat Halk Partisi - SHP) • Socialist Democracy Party (Sosyalist Demokrasi Partisi - SDP) • Communist Party of Turkey (Trkiye Komnist Partisi - TKP) • Homeland Party (Yurt Partisi - YP)
Former:Democratic People's Party (Demokratik Halk Partisi - DEHAP) • Democracy Party (Demokrasi Partisi) (1993) • Presence Party (Huzur Partisi)(1983) • Communist Party of Turkey (Trkiye Komnist Partisi - TKP) (1920) • New Turkey Party (Yeni Trkiye Partisi - YTP)
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