The Justice and Development Party, abbreviated officially as AK Party in English, is a political party in Turkey. It has been the ruling party of Turkey since 2002. Third-party sources often refer to
The Republic Protests took place in 2007 in support of the Kemalist reforms, particularly state secularism and democracy, against the perceived Islamization of Turkey under the ruling Justice and Development Party.
A rally of the Justice and Development Party in 2007
Picture of Erdogan among other leaders at the European People's Party Congress in 2009
Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ukraine
Neo-Ottomanism is a reactionary, revisionist, monarchist, conservative and Islamist political ideology in Turkey that discredits the Turkish secular nationalist republic and its reforms, and glorifies
Justice and Development Party
…of Turkey since 2002. Third-party sources often refer to the party as national conservative, social conservative, right-wing populist and as espousing neo-Ottomanism. The party is generally regarded as being right-wing on the political spectrum, although some sources have described it as far-right since 2011. It is…
The fez, which entered public life in the Ottoman Empire as part of Mahmud II's Westernization reforms, became a symbol of Islamist anti-Kemalism in Turkey.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Hossam Zaki, Senior Advisor to the Foreign Minister of Egypt, at the Munich Security Conference in 2010
A cult of personality was developed around Sultan Abdul Hamid II to tarnish Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's established image as the founder of modern Turkey.