Yeni zafer ve yeni-Osmanlıcılık fikri
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New victory and idea of neo-Ottomanism
06/17/2011 00:00:00
By Aris Ghazinyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) won apredictablevictory in the country’s parliamentary elections last weekend, receiving 49.9 percent of the vote.
The Republican People’s Party that was founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (the father of all Turks) gained 25.9 percent of the vote.
Thus, for the third consecutive time a forceespousing“neo-Ottomanism” as a state ideology has registered a landslide victory in Turkish parliamentary elections
AKP’s firstsuccesscame in June 2002 when in parliamentary elections it managed to win 363 seats in the 550-member Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The party was founded in August 2001 byformermembers of themoderateconservative wing of thebannedTurkish Islamic Virtue Party. Its leaders arecurrentPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul.
At present, Erdogan is focused on having a new Constitution adopted in Turkey and in this view he feels the need of his politicalopponents'votes. That is why in his victory speech, the Turkish prime minister declared: “In reality it is thewholeof Turkey, entire Europe, justice, democracy and the whole Turkish world that have won at these elections.”
Yeni zafer ve yeni-Osmanlıcılık fikri - New victory and idea of neo-Ottomanism
By Aris Ghazinyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) won apredictablevictory in the country’s parliamentary elections last weekend, receiving 49.9 percent of the vote.
The Republican People’s Party that was founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (the father of all Turks) gained 25.9 percent of the vote.
Thus, for the third consecutive time a forceespousing“neo-Ottomanism” as a state ideology has registered a landslide victory in Turkish parliamentary elections
AKP’s firstsuccesscame in June 2002 when in parliamentary elections it managed to win 363 seats in the 550-member Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The party was founded in August 2001 byformermembers of themoderateconservative wing of thebannedTurkish Islamic Virtue Party. Its leaders arecurrentPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul.
At present, Erdogan is focused on having a new Constitution adopted in Turkey and in this view he feels the need of his politicalopponents'votes. That is why in his victory speech, the Turkish prime minister declared: “In reality it is thewholeof Turkey, entire Europe, justice, democracy and the whole Turkish world that have won at these elections.”
http://armenianow.com/commentary/analysis/30372/erdogan_akp_party_elections_turkey_armenia