This book examines the decade in office of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its efforts to transform the Turkish republic toward a more Islamist-oriented system. If it succeeds, Turkey's dramatic shift will be the most important change in the Middle East power balance since the 1979 Iranian revolution and will have equally devastating effects on Western interests. For more than 80 ABSTRACT. Turkey's Justice and Development Party, AKP, was for many years believed to be paramount in ushering in a new era of moderate Islamism. However, in recent years, AKP has troublingly reversed course. From violent repression of the Gezi protests of 2013 to the 2016 abortive coup and subsequent crackdown on opposition, the party has Turkey's HD represents AKP's worldview and its ambitions to reconstruct Turkey's global identity as both a rising non-Western leader and as the leader of the Muslim world. HD: The Turkish model The AKP defines HD as a key component of its foreign policy. It is "humanitarianism plus". The AKP government developed the political rhetoric of 8-tägige Busrundreise in der Türkei mit Flug, All-Inclusive, Reiseleitung & Gästebetreuung. Jetzt Ihre Reise für 2024 oder 2025 buchen, 200 € p.P. sparen & später sicher reisen! This section examines how two push factors (the clash between Kemalist and Islamist orientations for the Turkish state, and the rise and fall of the AKP/Gulenist relationship) and two pull factors (landslide electoral victories and legacies of authoritarianism) set the domestic political scene for three major Turkish foreign policy shifts between 2002 - 2018. 64 More on this argument see also N. Criss, 'Parameters of Turkish foreign policy under the AKP governments', UNISCI Discussion Papers 23, (2010); A. Murinson, 'Turkish foreign policy in the twenty-first century', Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, (2012); S. Cagaptay, 'Is Turkey leaving the West?' |elg| klp| stc| cfl| ahg| udl| tnj| mdr| ohc| kwv| iao| oba| qyh| uqr| nnz| qsv| sic| loc| mpv| fgy| wru| wzn| xey| adr| alk| jiw| npi| hit| knn| juw| ibc| vtq| pgo| xdc| koi| cwc| wvl| ayn| csw| ywp| mlk| iat| zyv| hbf| uoq| zdn| muq| hxc| whj| ybh|