Turkey after the 2011 Elections: Paradoxes of the Political Development
In 2011 the ruling Justice and Development Party (JDP) of Recep Erdoğan again won a regular parliamentary elections with almost 50% of votes that is twice as much as the result of its main rival - the Republican Peoples Party. JDP has virtually established a regime of electoral hegemony: on every subsequent elections JDP managed to extend its social base. The consequences of these processes are reformation of the old Kemalist political system and exclusion of the military elite from it, establishment of the JDPs monopoly on the modernization and democratization by exclusion of political opponents from the political sphere. Inability of the opposition to give a real alternative socio-political program and found a common political platform, populist rhetoric of the JDP and Recep Erdoğans aspiration to get a qualifi ed majority in the parliament in order to pass its own project of the new Constitution, ambiguous foreign policy steps of the government - all this fi ll us with apprehension on the future of the democracy in Turkey.