...Syaza Farhana Mohamad Shukri; Ishtiaq Hossain Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been accused of Islamizing society through its family-centered policies that overlap with discourses originating from the Islamic faith. At the same time, the AKP government has maintained that it abides...

... side the emblem of the United States.”26 Bahceli, making a play on words in Turkish, proclaimed that the prime minister’s party was misnamed and that rather than be called the Justice and Development Party — Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi — it should be called the Deception and Duplicity Party...

...Zafer Yilmaz The Gezi uprising can be considered a crucial turning in Turkish politics. As a response to countrywide democratic protests, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government revived the security state, escalated authoritarian tendencies, and started to organize a nationalist...

... vis.à.vis Europe, as seen in the massive electoral support given to the Islamist but pro.EU Justice and Development Party (AKP), there is a growing culturally rooted opposition against the idea of Turkish membership in Europe. Why is it that in Europe, which is generally considered behaviorally...

...Nikos Christofis The essay shows how Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) and, most importantly, the country's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, use the concept of Yeni Turkiye (New Turkey) in attempts to construct a new national state tradition, a counterhegemonic narrative to replace...

... was not the objective of Turkish leaders, the very policies that produced unrest were precisely the policies that leaders had imagined would be most conducive for development. Lacking an indig- enous class of industrialists who might have led the developmental charge, Turkish leaders had to create one.6...

... a political settlement that adequately safeguards Turkish and Turkish-Cypriot interests. This essay traces Turkish policy in Cyprus since 1974 and explains how the Turkish government led by the Justice and Development Party revised Ankara’s Cyprus policy to advance Turkey’s accession to the European Union...

...Richard Weitz Relations between Russia and Turkey continue to deepen. This change from Cold War–era animosity began even before the advent of the new Turkish government led by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) but has accelerated since then. The leaders of both countries meet frequently...

...Murat Akser The relationship between Turkish media conglomerates and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has shown increased conflict since 2009. The AKP, under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has displayed increasing fear of and suspicion toward Turkey's liberal media...

...Ihsan Yilmaz Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) governments have managed to remove Kemalism only to replace it with an Islamist nation-building and social-engineering project that is as, if not more, authoritarian, conservative, and regressive than the Kemalist one. The Turkish education...

...Masaki Kakizaki Turkish politics experienced a major political realignment in 2002, when the Justice and Development Party came to power. This essay investigates the levels of trust in political institutions at this turning point of Turkish political life and by using the 2001 World Values Survey...

..., the brand new Justice and Development Party (JDP) emerged as the leading party and the representative of the Right. The only other party that escaped the wrath of the public, the Republican People’s Party, became de facto the sole representative of the left bloc. Sultan Tepe is assistant professor...

..., and the Njoki S. Ndungu, a former member of Kenya’s parliament, is chief executive officer of the Center for Legal Information and Communication in Kenya (CLICK), a nonprofit organization dealing with policy development on constitutional and legal reform and issues of transnational justice...

... as impressive support for the consolidation of power by the ruling, Islam-­friendly AKP (the Turkish acronym of the Justice and Development Party), a pragmatic offspring of the banned Islamist party.2 1. The result was 58.42 percent “yes,” with a 78 percent turnout. Many Kurds, more than half...

..., also held two national elections in 2015. Over the past thirteen years, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had enjoyed an absolute majority in the Turkish National Assembly and with it the power to form a single-­party government. As a result, one of the key issues in the run up...

...Mohamed A. El-Khawas Following a 1999 coup, Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf ruled by decree with the support of the military. He held a presidential referendum and got his party elected. He amended the constitution to legitimize his military rule. His involvement in the war on terrorism led...

... Service, deputy minister and secretary-general of the Ministry of Justice, attorney general, and deputy chief justice of Rwanda, as well as a consultant to the War Crimes Chamber Project and an international judge on the War Crimes and Organized Crime Chambers of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He...

... School of Advanced International Studies. Encarnación Omar G. : Democracy without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . 249 pages . ISBN 978-0-8122-4568-4 . $65 (hardcover). Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs...

... of Ottoman Oppo- sition Parties in Paris in 1902 was a turning point, because it forced the Young Turk factions to move beyond intellectual opposition and to political stands. As they orga- nized politically, they developed pragmatic agendas and moved away from the grand theories of the West...

.... Consequently, it is Ndumbe: The International Court of Justice and Border-Conflict Resolution  55 imperative that leaders from oil-producing African countries begin to invest in human resource development, which is an important component of eco- nomic growth. It is hard to understand the lagging...