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Justice and Development Party

Also known as JDP, AKP

conservative-democratic political party in Turkey

AI overview

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is a conservative-democratic political party in Turkey that has played a major role in Turkish politics since its founding in 2001. It matters because it has dominated Turkish government for much of the past two decades, shaping the country's domestic and foreign policies during a transformative period.

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Vinony's link graph records 1,900 inbound references to Justice and Development Party, and connects out to European Conservatives and Reformists Party, sharia and euroscepticism.

It is catalogued under topics including 2001 establishments in Turkey, Conservative parties in Turkey and European Conservatives and Reformists Party member parties.

Vinony links it to 78 Wikipedia language editions.

Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: political party
Country: Turkey
Founded by: Bülent Arınç
Headquarters: Ankara
Chairperson: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Official website: www.akparti.org.tr/ar
Significant event: 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt
Political ideology: economic nationalism

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phone number: +90-312-204-5000
short name: AKP
Commons category: Justice and Development Party (Turkey)
topic's main category: Category:Justice and Development Party (Turkey)
inception: 2001-08-14
member count: 11041464
member of: European People's Party
political alignment: right-wing
native label: Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi
member category: Category:Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians
sRGB color hex triplet: FFCC00
location of formation: Ankara
social media followers: 3100188

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Encyclopedic overview

The Justice and Development Party (Turkish: Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi [adaːˈlet ve kaɫkɯnˈma paɾtiˈsi], AK PARTİ), abbreviated officially as AK Party in English, is a political party in Turkey self-describing as conservative-democratic. It has been the ruling 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 currently the largest party in Grand National Assembly with 275 MPs, ahead of the main opposition social democratic Republican People's Party (CHP).

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been chairman of the AK Party since the 2017 Party Congress. The AK Party is the largest party in the Grand National Assembly, the Turkish national legislature, with 268 out of 600 seats, having won 35.6% of votes in the 2023 Turkish parliamentary election. It forms the People's Alliance with the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). The current parliamentary leader of the AK Party is Abdullah Güler.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Justice and Development Party” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.