Articles tagged with: akp
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Tuesday, 30 Apr, 2013
Turkey became a true multi-party democracy in 1950, and it has been holding free and fair elections ever since. Not counting the four years spent under military leadership following coups d’état, this means the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has effectively run Turkey for nearly a quarter of the country’s democratic history, thus becoming the longest-governing party in the history of the Turkish Republic.
Since coming to power in 2002, the AKP has not only managed the longest stint ...
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Saturday, 20 Apr, 2013
Ankara, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Çankaya Köşkü has been the official residence of the president of Turkey since the era of Atatürk, the founder of the modern republic. The presidential compound is comprised of a number of buildings, most famously Pembe Kösk, the iconic “pink villa.” This building was expanded, at Atatürk’s request, by renowned Austrian architect Professor Clemens Holzmeister. Atatürk later died at his presidential residence in 1938, which has served as the home of eve...
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The translucent white marble stairs and cream gilt and stucco ceilings of the ceremonial hall of Ankara’s new presidential palace rarely echo to spontaneous applause, but the...
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Monday, 18 Feb, 2013
My career as a diplomatic reporter began just a couple of months before the start of the First Gulf War. It was then that the sentence “maintaining the territorial integrity ...
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Saturday, 9 Feb, 2013
It seemed as though Turkey’s boisterous prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had finally lost his patience with the state of affairs in Syria, when he snapped at a recent p...
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Tuesday, 15 Jan, 2013
Referring to the generals who deposed him twice, former Turkish Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel once said that the trouble with Turkish politics was that while “politicians ...
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Friday, 15 Jun, 2012
This May 29th marked the 559th anniversary of the conquest of Istanbul. Thousands of people gathered in the soft drizzling rain on the Golden Horn in the evening to watch the c...
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Wednesday, 22 Feb, 2012
The signs were growing this month that Turkey's quiet revolution may have begun to eat its own children, as the government hastily amended a law to prevent courts questioning close...
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Wednesday, 14 Dec, 2011
Recep Erdogan has succeeded in re-energizing Turkey’s role in the world. His re-election, in June 2011, to a third term as Prime Minister after retaining the AKP’s majority...
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Wednesday, 22 Jun, 2011
A victory in 2002; a landslide in 2007; an avalanche on 12 June this year: Turkey has never seen a party like the Justice and Development Party, or AKP.
Half of Turkish vote...
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