The AKP Generation: Political Party or Political Entrepreneurs?

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Abstract

In response to the Turkish Prime Minister's outburst at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos, AsIi Aydirv tasbas wrote "for us Turks, watching Erdogan lose it*... was nothing new. It was, rather, an Erdogan classic- charismatic yet boorish; ardent but intimidating." But as the man who was once imprisoned for saying u[t]he mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the faithful our soldier" won his third term with a decisive mandate, the opposition remained dismayed at the regime's resilience and their own inability to counter the incredible popularity of the charismatic, boorish, ardent leader who has, in under a decade, triggered a wave of sociopolitical, economic, and cultural transformations in a manner unseen since the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftThe Diplomatic Courier
Vol/bind6
Udgave nummer2
Sider (fra-til)74-75
Antal sider2
ISSN2161-7260
StatusUdgivet - jan. 2012
Udgivet eksterntJa

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