Turkey: The Long Road to Justice and Development
Turkey: The Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its charismatic leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have once again proved their popularity among the Turkish electorate, obtaining close to 50% of the votes in the June 12th elections. This victory, however, differs from those in the AKP’s past. What are the challenges that the AKP and the “Turkish model” face now and in the future? Resetdoc.org analyses the issue in depth, speaking to Hugh Pope at the International Crisis Group and with a far-sighted 2009 essay by Andrew Arato from the New School for Social Research in New York.