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	Republican People\'s Party (Turkey) - Suprari (beta)
		Party associates itself with Mustafa Kemal and his friendships that he build during the World War I, especially the Gallipoli Campaign, in which the leader Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) was an Ottoman military officer.
		In 1961, Justice Party (AP) was established, claiming to be the successor to the Democratic Party.
		Süleyman Demirel became prime minister in the late 1960's, and because he was the leader of the AP (Justice Party), he continued in the tradition of Adnan Menderes gaining a large amount of support from both the religious and democrats.
	www.suprari.com /wiki.php?page=Republican_People's_Party_(Turkey) (2169 words)

	USATODAY.com - Islam-rooted party victorious in Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Justice and Development Party won a parliamentary majority in Sunday's elections —; the first time in 15 years that any party has been in a position to govern alone — largely due to voter fury over a devastated economy.
		Erdogan leads the party, but has been banned from standing as a candidate because of a jail sentence he served in 1999 for publicly reading a poem that a court deemed anti-secular.
		The Justice party appeared to be just short of the two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to change the constitution to allow Erdogan to become premier.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-11-03-turkey-elections_x.htm (850 words)

	Political parties in Turkey - All About Turkey
		It was a minority party until it won 76 parliamentary seats in the December 1995 general elections.
		Erbakan fell apart under pressure of the military and the party was banned in January 1998 by the Constitutional Court.
		In 1993, Demirel succeeded Özal as President of Turkey and was replaced as head of the party and Prime Minister by Tansu Ciller.
	www.allaboutturkey.com /parti.htm (1710 words)

	Justice and Development Party (Turkey) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Justice and Development Party emerged from the members of the Welfare Party, which briefly led a coalition government in Turkey in 1996.
		In 2000 the Welfare Party was broken up by the military for allegedly threatening the secular nature of the Republic of Turkey according to the military officials.
		Turkey has quite a good chance to join the EU—in early 2005, the AKP was admitted as an observer-member of the European People's Party, the conservative party of the EU, which means it is likely to become a full member of the group if Turkey is admitted to the EU.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Justice_and_Development_Party_(Turkey) (617 words)

	Turkey's Ruling Party Wins Election
		With more than 99 percent of votes counted, television news channels were projecting that the Justice and Development Party would win 341 of the 550 seats, down 10 seats from the outgoing parliament, but more than many observers expected.
		Turkey has close to 200,000 troops along the Iraqi border, and its soldiers face almost daily attack from nationalist Kurds who are based in Iraq but aim to form an independent state in Turkish, Iraqi and Iranian territory.
		Parliament votes for the president, giving the country's ruling party and prime minister a critical role in naming the other top civilian, whose major duty is as titular head of the armed forces.
	www.coxwashington.com /reporters/content/reporters/stories/2007/07/25/BC_TURKEY_ELECTION2NDLEDE_COX.html (676 words)

	Jonathan Power, Time overdue for Turkey to enter Europe (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most of Turkey still lives in small towns and villages and it is the people there that the sophisticates of the city have had to wait for- not just economically but politically too.
		Despite an EU promise to open negotiations for Turkey's entry into the Union at the end of next year it is inevitable that Moslem Turkey is going to meet a degree of opposition that the Christian east Europeans have largely avoided.
		Turkey would then be Europe's very useful eastern beacon of democracy and social well-being, setting a standard that the East would probably feel pressured to emulate.
	www.transnational.org /forum/power/2003/10.01_TurkeyEurope.html (863 words)

	Asia Times
		ISTANBUL - Turkey closed a chapter in its history on Sunday when voters in national elections threw out the old ruling class and replaced it with a new party with Islamic roots which proclaims itself as pro-European with no intention of upsetting the secular system in place in the country.
		The Justice and Development Party led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the charismatic former mayor of Istanbul, placed 363 deputies in the 550-member parliament, garnering 35 percent of the vote.
		There are moves to ban the Justice and Development Party itself because of the record of its leader and continuing doubts about its commitment to a secular lifestyle.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/DK06Ak03.html (980 words)

	Travel Guide To Turkey, Guide de la Turquie, GUIDE MARTINE, Guide to Turkey, Guide de Turquie, Travel, Turkey, Voyage, ...
		SPREAD OF Mustafa Kemal, born in Salonika in 1881, was a student at the Manastir Military academy and later at the War College in Constantinople.
		Turkey’s best allied country was the United States who took the country under the Marshall Plan in 1948.
		The Democratic Party leaders were imprisoned and brought to trial on the charges of coruption, unconstitutional rule and high treason.
	www.guide-martine.com /history8.asp (2390 words)

	CNN.com - Scarf row mars Turkey anniversary - Oct. 29, 2003
		Turkey celebrated the 80th anniversary of its founding as a secular republic Wednesday amid renewed controversy between lawmakers from its Islamic-rooted governing party and the pro-secular president over Islamic-style headscarves.
		The row reflects the secular establishment's suspicions of the ruling party and highlights the legacy of Turkish secularism since the country was founded out of the ashes of the Islamic Ottoman Empire 80 years ago.
		Turkey's secular establishment, led by the military, is deeply suspicious of any signs of political Islam and in 1997 a pro-Islamic government was pressured out of power.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/10/29/turkey.anniversary.ap/index.html (535 words)

	World Tribune.com: Turkey's role in Iraq war, secular constitution now in doubt
		The Justice and Development Party, known as the AKP, was said to have won 65 percent of seats in the 550-member parliament.
		Turkey's business community expressed concern that the Justice and Development Party would violate an agreement for fiscal austerity reached with the International Monetary Fund.
		The leader of the Justice and Development Party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was a member of Erbakan's party as well as mayor of Istanbul.
	www.worldtribune.com /worldtribune/WTARC/2002/me_turkey_11_04.html (761 words)

	The Daily Texan - Islamic 'Justice' party wins Turkish election
		Erdogan leads the Justice party, but has been banned by the elections board from standing as a candidate because of a jail sentence he served in 1999 for publicly reading a poem that a court deemed anti-secular.
		The Justice party was established last year by lawmakers from a banned pro-Islamic party and has already sparked tensions with the staunchly secular establishment.
		Turkey is also crucial to an Iraq operation, a point that was underscored when Gen. Tommy Franks, the head of any future Iraq operation, visited Turkey last month.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=4ae891f1-a265-492d-9ce2-f28c033f51da (841 words)

	World Tribune.com: Victory by Islamic party in Turkey could impact U.S. war plans
		The party is led by Islamic politicians although leaders maintain that they are a secular conservative movement.
		Party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a former mayor of Istanbul and convicted of inciting religious hatred, was banned from running in the elections on grounds that he does not support Turkey's secular constitution.
		On Friday, Turkey's Constitutional Court gave Erdogan 15 days to prepare his argument that he should be allowed to lead the party.
	www.worldtribune.com /worldtribune/WTARC/2002/me_turkey_11_03.html (648 words)

	Worldandnation: Party tied to Islam takes over in Turkey
		ANKARA, Turkey -- A party with Islamic roots formed Turkey's first majority government in 15 years Monday, promising to maintain close ties with the West and lift the country from its worst recession since World War II.
		The Justice and Development Party won 363 of the 550 seats in elections Nov. 3.
		The party has announced an ambitious reform agenda to eradicate torture, overhaul taxes and reduce the income gap between rich and poor.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/11/19/news_pf/Worldandnation/Party_tied_to_Islam_t.shtml (395 words)

	ICONS Project \| Research Library \| Countries \| Turkey
		The current ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), is led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and is considered moderate-conservative.
		Turkey is a member of NATO (since 1952) and is regarded as a Western ally in the region.
		Turkey is in the EU ascension process, but it is expected to take nearly a decade for it to meet all of the criteria regarding economic, political, and human rights standards.
	www.icons.umd.edu /reslib/country.output_country_page?simnum=&name=&v_country_id=179 (532 words)

	Turks.US Daily News - Is it in Turkey's interests to join this Christian club? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1994, Gul was the deputy chairman and a spokesman on foreign affairs for Refah, a predecessor of the Justice and Development party.
		Senior men in the party, known as AKP after its Turkish initials, some time ago began comparing it to the Christian Democrat movements of Europe, in spite of the fact that the most substantial opposition to Turkish entry into the EU comes from within the ranks of such movements.
		The party and the movement certainly include various currents of opinion, and both Gul and Erdogan are from its moderate wing.
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=20021213172437593 (1159 words)

	Is it in Turkey's interests to join this Christian club? \| Guardian daily comment \| Guardian Unlimited
		In 1994, Gul was the deputy chairman and a spokesman on foreign affairs for Refah, a predecessor of the Justice and Development party.
		Senior men in the party, known as AKP after its Turkish initials, some time ago began comparing it to the Christian Democrat movements of Europe, in spite of the fact that the most substantial opposition to Turkish entry into the EU comes from within the ranks of such movements.
		The party and the movement certainly include various currents of opinion, and both Gul and Erdogan are from its moderate wing.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,859140,00.html (1064 words)

	TIME.com: U.S. Talks Iraq, Turkey Talks Europe -- Page 1
		Erdogan's party has been portrayed as a moderate Islamist group — a characterization the party firmly rejects — and that together with traditional worries about the economic impact of a war and Turkey's concerns to avoid an outcome that creates any Kurdish national entity on its border has been viewed as potential sticking points.
		Turkey is fulfilling all of the political criteria, and should be given a date.
		Turkey has been in the frontline of defending European values during Cold War and after, and it's a great shame not to begin the process of admitting Turkey to the EU.
	www.time.com /time/world/article/0,8599,397675,00.html (1570 words)

	Landslide Victory Hands Pro-European Party Power in Turkey
		The party was formed a year ago by members of previously banned Islamist groups, and its leader Reccep Tayyip Erdogan is currently banned from the country's national assembly and therefore cannot be named prime minister.
		Turkey and the EU Despite the victory of a pro-EU party, the European Union is still not completely convinced that Turkey can be considered a candidate for enlargement.
		Angela Merkel, party leader for the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said on Monday that Turkey’s membership in the EU is “not on the agenda.” The CDU is also not in favor of using the EU summit in Copenhagen in December as a forum for discussing a concrete date for Turkey’s entrance, Merkel said.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/782601/posts (1443 words)

	donga.com [english donga]
		Turkey’s general election, which generated interest as a race between a ruling pro-Islamic party and its secular opposition, resulted in a victory for Islam yesterday.
		Turkey’s economy, which was going through hard times under the supervision of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), showed an annual economic growth average of 7.3% after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power in 2002.
		However, if the AKP demolishes the long-held tradition of secularism in Turkey, their greatest task will be to resolve the discord with secular power groups, such as the opposition party, military authorities, and legal circles, which have all strongly opposed the current government.
	english.donga.com /srv/service.php3?biid=2007072449398 (430 words)

	IslamonLine.net
		In other words, there will be two parties in the coming Turkish parliament, the Justice party, which is expected to win and form a government alone without getting down into coalitions, and the opposition People's party which is expected to gain one fourth or one third of the seats as we said of late.
		There is freedom and democracy in Turkey, and everyone can exercise their freedoms except in two tabooed positions the Turkish are prohibited to approach: first, criticizing secularism, attempting to undermine it, or setting up a party against it, second, criticizing any of Ataturk's achievements.
		Regarding the Justice party, it sees that its greatest mission now is to reform this country and to stop abuse and embezzlement of public funds and theft.
	www.islamonline.net /livedialogue/english/Browse.asp?hGuestID=Y9hoLa (1750 words)

	"Turkey's Justice and Development Party: A Model for Democratic Islam?" (June/July 2004)
		With a genealogy that clearly places it in the tradition of Turkey's Islamist political trend, the rise of the AKP was at first greeted with trepidation by the country's Kemalist military and political elite.
		And in Turkey's case, the evolution of a modernizing Islamist political force was facilitated by external pressures for reform.
		Turkey, a country of about 70 million Muslims, most of whom are religious, is ruled today by a conservative party with an Islamic pedigree and a humane, tolerant, and democratic track record.
	www.meib.org /articles/0407_t1.htm (3202 words)

	Turkey's Anti-Americanism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The article focused on neither point, although anti-Americanism in Turkey is rampant — a BBC poll conducted last year found Turkey to hold the most anti-American sentiment in the world.
		Two years later, the Welfare Party was declared unconstitutional and was disbanded on the grounds that it threatened Turkey's secularity.
		Erdogan scheduled to visit to Washington, D.C., next month, it should be noted that Turkey has developed a PR machine that is working overtime to create the impression that the ruling party is an ally of America and a friend of the West.
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Printable.asp?ID=18271 (658 words)

	Insight Turkey
		While many Turks may not support the Justice and Development Party (AKP), almost everyone felt a sense of relief at their victory in November.
		The landslide victory of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in November's poll begs the question of where their support comes from.
		Turkey’s former foreign minister presents a short tour d'horizon on the eve of NATO’s Prague summit, looking at what expansion may mean in the years to come.
	www.insightturkey.com /is1.htm (949 words)

	al-Jazeera :: Gul faces second presidency vote
		Turkey's parliament is preparing for a second vote on the presidential candidacy of Abdullah Gul, the foreign minister.
		Gul is unlikely to win Friday's vote because his Justice and Development party (AFP) lacks the two-thirds majority needed to be elected in this round.
		Gul has pledged loyalty to Turkey's constitution and promised neutrality, while Erdogan has said that Gul's membership in the party they founded in 2001 would end the minute he is elected president.
	al-jazeera.tistory.com /364 (474 words)

	CNN.com - Europe hails AKP victory in Turkey - Nov. 4, 2002
		Turkey's main stock index ended more than 6 percent higher, while the lira recovered from a record low of 1,703,500 to the U.S. dollar to end trading Monday at 1,672,000 -- up slightly from Friday's close.
		The AKP describes itself as a moderate, conservative party, but its roots in outlawed Islamist movements have stirred concern in Turkey's secular establishment, especially among the powerful armed forces.
		Turkey has shut down a series of Islamic parties since they began rising to power in the mid-1990s, sparking criticism from the European Union.
	www.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/11/04/turkey.elections/index.html (941 words)

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		The decline of Turkey's established center-right parties at the end of the 1990s -- a decade marked by inefficient coalition governments, corruption scandals, and three successive economic depressions -- left AKP as the only contender for the right-wing vote in Turkey.
		For example, in a move that would appease the European Union, the party might try to break ground in the stalled Cyprus negotiations (Erdogan is scheduled to join the ongoing talks on March 29) by moving closer to the Greek demands.
		Domestically, an AKP victory would be the second phase of the party's sweep over Turkish politics (the first phase, the November 2002 elections, gave the party two-thirds of the parliament, enough to amend the constitution).
	www.washingtoninstitute.org /templateC05.php?CID=1726 (1347 words)

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