The political project of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey

Abstract
Studying the topic of political project of AK party in Turkey
represents a ring of so many ones which show the charges
witnessed by the Turkish politics as will as changes accompanied in
some strategies of political trends in Turkey. These trends
represent of Islamic direction represented in this study by Justice
and Development party headed by Tayyib Erdogan. This party
presents itself in crtain cordition which need such a trend in
Turkey to be a joining ring and a balance between Islamic reality
of Turkey and its secularist frontage. This has been clear through
the perspectives of partys leaders which included different elites of
politics in Turkey in order to form a political project prepared to
be a reform project for the political arena in Turkey and also to be
a starting point in its political action as being the ruling party.
The study concentrated on five major aspects and at the
beginning comes the general conditions in Turkey before the birth
of the party and how such conditions and changes have been an
effective motive in its foundation. Therefore, the party depends on
bases and aims of particular form especially its relation with Islam
and state Se cularism. This has facilitated the process of reaching
the power by its winning the elections and the reflections of this
upon secularist powers in Turkey .represented by the military. The
political project of the party is the main aspect of this study being a
reform program prepared by the party after forming the
government and also having its effect upon party politics in Turkey
for it is the first Islamic party in Turkey adopts perspectives wgich
represent a type of continuation and balance with secularist powers
in Turkey.