Justice and Development Party (AKP)

Outgoing President Abdullah Gül will leave Ankara and depart for Istanbul, where he plans to reside in the near future, after the inauguration ceremony for President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Aug. 28.

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader has indicated a new era of tension between the president-elect and the CHP, vowing not to attend the incoming president’s oath-taking ceremony because he did not want to “legitimize a false oath.”
 

The results of the Aug. 10 presidential elections were published in the Official Gazette on Aug. 28, exactly 13 days after the High Election Board (YSK) announced the final counting.

The publication of the results comes right before the oath ceremony of President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who will officially only spend a few hours away from his Prime Ministry position.

A “new Turkey” is emerging as the top two posts of the country change hands and vow to embrace all citizens, but the fight against members of the so called “parallel state,” the term used by the ruling party to describe members of Fethullah Gülen movement, will continue on.

Some called Aug. 27’s extraordinary convention of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) as a farewell congress to President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who left the party chairmanship to Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has elected Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu as its new chair during its extraordinary congress at the Ankara Arena Sports Hall. 

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has launched its extraordinary congress at the Ankara Arena Sports Hall. Outgoing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, elected president Aug. 10, announced moments before the Congress that the new government will be formed Aug. 29.

Today’s congress of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) will be the first extraordinary one in 13 years, something not very usual for the always-shaky Turkish politics, giving us clues about the in-house stability of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s party.

Today, I am leaving my column to Amberin Zaman, a colleague and a friend who I have known for more than two decades, and who has recently been targeted by government supporters. 

Prime Minister designate Ahmet Davutoğlu is promising to continue with what he refers to as the “restoration process” under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).  He is an academic and likes to use words that have an academic ring.