AK party – a decade in charge
Recently, a celebration of the Justice and Development (AK) party on completing their 10th year in charge was held grandly at Ankara, Turkey. This event turned all the media attention towards Ankara as it gathered more than 40,000 supporters on that day.
The Egypt President Muhammed Moorsi, the Turkey Prime Minister Tyyib Erdugan, the Hamas political leader Khalid Mish’al, and some other great personalities were invited as chief guests.
In his speech, the Egypt President Moorsi addressed the Turkey Prime Minister Erdugan and said “Turkey is the perfect example for Arab countries on solving political and social issues.” And, he added that “Egypt agrees with Turkey on actions against crisis in Syria.” Aarif Kaskin, a political researcher said that Moorsi’s visit to Turkey clarifies that Egypt will join hands with Turkey on making changes in the Middle East in the future.
When Khalid Mish’al started his sermon, with large support from the audience, he said, “Turkey has shown the bright face of Islam.” And, he added “Erdogan is not only a leader for Turkey now, but also a leader for the entire Muslim Ummah (Society) as well.”
When the hero of the function, Tyyib Erdogan, started his speech by thanking the guests by names, it was really a boom from the crowd. In his speech the Prime Minister warned the West against promoting “Islamophobia” and also reminded the world about their concept towards Israel.
Addressing thousands of party members, Erdogan said the era of military coups in the nation of 75 million people was over. And he promised that “the military power over civil governance will be reduced soon,” in the speech lasting almost two and half hours and meant to chart the AK Party’s agenda for the next decade.
He vowed to frame a more diverse constitution in the following decade and turn a new page in the relations with Turkey’s 15 million Kurds, to make the regime strong enough with the support of all communities.
Erdugan continued by saying that, “Turkey’s Islamist-rooted ruling party had become an example to the Muslim world after a decade in charge.” “We called ourselves conservative democrats. We focused our change on basic rights and freedom,” Erdogan told thousands of cheering party members at the Congress in a sports stadium in the capital Ankara. “This stance has gone beyond our country’s borders and has become an example for all Muslim countries,” he added.
Under Erdogan’s autocratic grip, the AK Party has won three consecutive elections since 2002, ending a history of fragile coalition governments punctuated by military coups and marking Turkey’s longest period of single-party government for more than half a century. It is important to mention that per capita income has nearly tripled in that time and Turkey has re-established itself as a regional power, with its allies seeing its mix of democratic stability and Islamic culture as a potential role model in a volatile region.
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