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“However, those who didn’t want to lose their orientation capacity, their authority over the state and their income in favor of the “newcomers,” promptly organized a resistance.”
The danger is not in the AK party itself, but how the ruling elite attempt to keep power. In every revolutionary change, how the ruling party handles the reforms the people obviously want becomes the crux - if they stay ahead of the curve, Turkey will stay secular.
After these elections, marked by a high level of participation, the AK Party obtained 16.2 million votes. This is the answer of society to those who expected a confrontation. Turkish people have showed that they are asking for more democracy and that they will not tolerate the bureaucratic wars; not that they have become more religious.