ENG - The Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi or AK Parti, or AKP) is the incumbent Turkish political party, which describes itself as being conservative. The AKP portrays itself as a moderate, conservative, pro-Western party that advocates a liberal market economy and Turkish membership in the European Union.
 
In 2005, the AKP was granted observer membership in the European People's Party. The AKP won 46.6% of the popular vote and was allocated 341 seats in the rescheduled 22 July 2007 elections. While the total vote share represented a massive increase over the 34% of the vote it received in the 2002 general election, the AKP ultimately garnered fewer seats as a result of the MHP passing the 10% total vote threshold necessary to claim parliamentary seats.
 
Abdullah Gül, a prominent AKP leader and former Foreign Minister, is currently the President of Turkey, while Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the head of the party and the Prime Minister. - Have you voted in the poll Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi ? -
 
On August 5, 2008, President Abdullah Gul, assigned 21 new deans to all government Universities after the verdict of the party closure trials. The Turkish media, released that all newly placed deans were for the lift of the headscarf ban. On August 9, 2008, Edibe Sozen, and AKP parliament member, proposed establishing a prayer section in all schools, and to ban the sales of pornographic images to anyone under the age of 16. The the proposed bill also included that anyone over 16 purchasing the content, would be logged via, Citizen Identification Number.

 

Leader Recep: Tayyip Erdoğan

Founded: August 14, 2001

Political Ideology: Conservatism, Liberal conservatism, Right-wing

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_and_Development_Party_(Turkey)

20th November