"Turkey under the AKP: Neither a European nor a regional power
SONER ÇAĞAPTAY
When the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, came to power in 2002 in Turkey, many were satisfied with its assurance that it would make Ankara’s European Union accession the chief aim of Turkish foreign policy, despite the party’s Islamist pedigree. The promise of a European Turkey helped assuage fears both within Turkey and Europe about the AKP’s Islamist roots: If the AKP desired a European Turkey, it could not possibly harbor Islamist tendencies."
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