AKP took office in 2002 with the promises to consolidate democracy, institutionalize the rule of law and deepen respect for human rights. After a period of reforms on the path to EU membership, the party has turned against its own success.
Why has the AKP changed and gone authoritarian?
How Turkey drifted from being a 'model country' that reconciles Islam with democracy to a country of political chaos and civil strife?
What went wrong in Turkey?
Is Turkey under the AKP rule a case for illiberal democracy or a post?modern authoritarianism with Islamic references?
Can Turkey's de?democratization be stopped?
This is the story of the Islamists who failed to be democrats.
Professor Ihsan Dagi is a member of the faculty in the Department of International Relations at the Middle East
Technical University.