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[Al Ahram] Turkey and democracy
With the Turkish Supreme Court´s recent ruling against banning it, the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) survived yet another one of the innumerable challenges it has been encountering with increasing frequency.
So far the AK Party, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has handled the challenges well. The primary theatre of battle has been in development, with respect to which national growth rates have been in focus with steady growth. Perhaps what helped Erdoğan´s party most is its ability to ensure political stability for the Turkish public. The AK Party was perhaps the first in the history of the Turkish political system to win a large enough majority in parliament to form its own relatively homogeneous government. Before this, the Turkish political pendulum had always swung between the type of stability that the military could bring or shaky democracy once civilians returned to government. Under the AK Party, the Turks have experienced for the first time in their political history stability under democracy.
from the egyptian ahram 
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