Unfinished Building: Kurdish Language Rights During the First AKP Ruling Period from November 2002 to June 2015
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 31 pages, pdf Description: The conservative centre-right Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) was founded under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in August 2001. Not long after its foundation, the AKP won the 2002 parliamentary election, which was the first of three consecutive victories for the Party. Having ruled Turkey through its majority governments from November 2002 to June 2015, the AKP, albeit coming out the first party by far, lost its parliamentary majority in the June 7 general election (258 out of 550 seats), leading to the end of the first AKP ruling period.