"Senior AK Party sources told Reuters last week that the party was preparing for a ban, as well as a ban for Erdogan from politics for five years
Reuters Fri May 23, 2008 (...) The fading of hope for religious reform fits into a larger picture of the ruling party's fading interest in the democratic reforms needed if Turkey is ever to become an EU member.
"They only wanted a place in the power system. Once they got it, they stopped," said Ankara University sociologist Dogu Ergil.
Rusen Cakir, author of several books on Islam and politics in Turkey, said political power rather than religion was always key to the AK Party's confrontation with the secularist elite."
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