Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) defied the polls in last Sunday’s election, winning 49.4 percent of the total votes, totaling some 317 seats in parliament. The election came amid ...

In this month’s Turkish parliamentary elections, the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) won almost 50 percent of the popular vote, up from 46.5 in the previous elections. The success was ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey – The AKP party should be at the peak of its powers. It has muted political opponents, strengthened its grip on parliament, and created a super presidency for its leader, Recep Tayyip ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polling station officials count ballot papers after the end of the local elections in Turkey. Bilal Seckin/SOPA Images via ZUMA ...

A near-decade of rule by Turkey’s governing AKP has reshaped the state and consolidated the party’s clear political hegemony. But this very success exposes serious remaining problems in Turkish ...

All the critics are wrong. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development party, Turkey has never been better. In fact, it continues to improve! The economy is thriving, and is ...

Imagine a country in which the ruling party—having won three consecutive national elections over the past decade-plus—wins its fourth in a row, beating the second-place party by over fifteen ...

AKP’s new election song puts spotlight on Palestine The AKP, incorporating the slogan of the Palestinian struggle, 'from the river to the sea,' in its local election song, had previously acknowledged ...

Things are getting very hot this summer in Turkey—and it's not just the weather. A long-simmering constitutional crisis is boiling over, and the country is experiencing one of its most turbulent ...

The post-2013 phase of the AKP's rule hosted increasing hostility towards rights-based socio-political opposition. This stage can be defined by the pervasion of anti-feminist discourse into the sphere ...