The AK Parti (the Justice and Development Party) is a political party in which country?
Justice and Development Party (Turkey) organisations. Justice and Development Party (Turkey) The Justice and Development Party (), abbreviated officially AK Parti in Turkish, is a social conservative political party in Turkey. Developed from the conservative tradition of Turkey's Ottoman past and its Islamic identity, the party is the largest in Turkey. Founded in 2001 by members of a number of existing conservative parties, the party has won pluralities in the six most recent legislative elections, those of 2002, 2007, 2011, June 2015, November 2015, and 2018. The party held a majority of seats for 13 years, but lost it in June 2015, only to regain
Justice and Development Party (Turkey) AKP is now forced to form a coalition government in negotiation with other parties. In September 2012, two-year-old conservative-oriented People's Voice Party (HAS Parti) dissolved itself and joined the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) with a majority of its delegates' votes. In July 2012, following long-held speculation that former HSP leader Numan Kurtulmuş was on Prime Minister Erdoğan's mind as his possible successor as party head, Erdoğan personally proposed to Kurtulmuş the idea of merging the parties under the umbrella of the AKP. Critics have accused the AKP of having a 'hidden agenda' despite their public endorsement of secularism