Research On The Policies Of Justice And Development Party Of Turkey And Its Implications

The Justice and Development Party(AKP) has made huge implications on Turkey since the ruling of AKP from 2002. The specific ideology and the achievements about promoting the development of social and economic gained the supporting from many different classes for AKP, profit by a broad range of supporters, which pushed AKP to the peak of power again and again. In this paper, AKP and its policies would be regarded as the research object, and would reveal the implications on Turkish internal and foreign affairs after AKP in power. Besides the Introduction and Conclusion, this article is divided into three parts.The first part mainly reviewed the establishment and rise of the development of AKP, and AKP’s unique ideology was also analyzed. In the beginning of new century,Turkey’s political crisis and the influence of the strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan promoted the AKP’s establish, other main political parties in Turkey were declined relatively which created an opportunity and space for the development of AKP. At the same time, AKP’s ideology, “dominated by conservative democratic”, has a wide range of “audiences”, so that many different classes were willing to support AKP, and helped AKP won in many elections. Consequently, the AKP’s ruling status gradually strengthened.The second part mainly analyzed the basic policies of AKP. In domestic, AKP had undertakened the political reforms which centered on adjusting the relationship between religious and secular, cleared the military forces and carried out a series of social and economic policies. In addition, under the background of the Kurdish problem increasingly tricky, AKP adjusted the Kurdish policy and transformed the attitude into tough increasingly. In foreign policy, with the unpredictable international and region environment, AKP adopted a "Great power" balance diplomacy which found a equilibrium point between the East and the West, advocated Turkey as a "Regional power" to participate regional affairs actively, and try to enlarge theinfluence of Turkey in regional and international. However, there were still many challenges for AKP to deal with.The third part mainly discussed the implications after AKP became the ruling party. According to the policies which AKP carried out, Turkish national strength had increased, and Turkey has become a model in the Islamic world of the modernization development. Nevertheless, with nowadays’ rapidly changing situation in home and abroad, both president Erdogan revised constitution mighty to push a presidential system, which would exacerbate Turkish domestic society’s divergence; AKP government’s attitude towards IS also would be one of the main reasons that why Turkey’s peripheral security environment deteriorate rapidly.The conclusion is a summary of this paper. In this part, it will be indicated that although AKP won the latest parliamentary election with difficulty, but in recent years,AKP’s reform on economy and politic seems very hard; Senior officials of scandals are successive; APK turn against with Fethullah Gülen who has a huge social influence; and both the domestic security situation and the peripheral security environment are not optimistic, all of these events are killing AKP’s achievements. In this context, AKP should consider the situation and make accurate judgments and responses in time. Otherwise, AKP would lose voters’ trust again, and the result for parliamentary election which occurred in June,2015 was a good lesson.