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Justice and Development Party

Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AK Party), founded in 2001, has dominated national government since 2002. Under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan it oversaw major economic and social changes and the shift to a presidential system concentrating executive authority in the presidency.

6
People
1
AKP leader / President
1
co-founder / former president
1
co-founder / former speaker
1
former interior minister
1
party figure / former minister
1
Prime Minister / AKP leader

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