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Situating Change Under the AKP

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How should we understand the post-2002 period of Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) rule? How should we assess and situate change and transformation alongside continuity? With respect to these questions, there have been two main interpretations. First, the dominant paradigm has principally been premised on transition theory, with the AKP period analysed in terms of a democratic transition process advanced by a move away from military tutelage. Second, others have stressed elements of persistence, involving the conception of the AKP period as constituting continuity with the previous ‘oppressive and authoritarian state’ remodelled in Islamist-conservative form (Bedirhanoğlu, 2009).

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Lord, C. (2017). Situating Change Under the AKP. In: Ersoy, M., Ozyurek, E. (eds) Contemporary Turkey at a Glance II. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16021-0_1

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