May 19, 20205 yr Author Sharing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan's ambition to empower religious individuals in civil life previously disenfranchised in secular Turkey, in 2003 a number of Glen movement participants pivoted from the Turkish political center to become the junior partner with the newly ruling Erdoan-led and center-right Justice and Development Party (AKP), providing the party political and sorely-needed administrative support.This political alliance worked together to weaken left-of-center Kemalist factions in the judiciary, military, and police (see Ergenekon trials). It internally fractured in 2011, which became common knowledge by the time of the corruption investigations of highly placed members of Turkey's ruling party in 2013.Coming Soon.
