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Justice and Development Party (Turkey)
The
Justice and Development Party
, abbreviated
JDP
or
AK
in English and
AKP
or
AK Parti
in Turkish, is a
social conservative
political party
in
Turkey
. It has developed from the tradition of
Islamism
, but has officially abandoned this ideology in favour of "
conservative democracy
". The party is the largest in Turkey, and has a majority in
parliament
with 316 members. Its leader,
Ahmet Davutoglu
, is
Prime Minister
, while former party leader
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
is
President
.
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