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The Justice and Development Party (the AKP or White Party) which rules today in Turkey, is the first to achieve two consecutive victories in general elections in more than 50 years. Firstly, it won the November 2002 elections, two years after the formation of the party. Secondly, in the latest July 2007 elections, it won 47% of the vote to form a government without a coalition. These results have not been witnessed in Turkish political history since the Democratic Party, started by Adnan Mandaris, which led political life in the 1950s. The AKP party brought back to politics the meaning lost with the advent of the secularist parties, which ruled after Najmuddin Erbakan was forced to leave the post of Prime Minister in 1997, less than a year of taking over. In fact, it is not only a party like the other secularist or traditional Islamic parties, but also wisely combines political values derived from Islamic standards - which may be considered conservative - with real politics by means of programmes and political tools.
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