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A Decade of Erdoğan's JDP: Ruptures and Continuities

A decade after the beginning of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's leadership in Turkey, there is still hot debate on how to understand the politics of Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (JDP). The discursive and political legacies of the party are so diverse that many different views can find a basis in some or other point of reference. This also means that most studies of the JDP offer a narrow perspective and ignore a sizeable part of the legacy of the party. To ignore this defect, this article explains the decade of the Erdoğan by a simultaneous use of the terms rupture and continuity and reads the history of the JDP as that of a transformation from liberal conservatism to a more authoritarian politics. As we argue, the interests of the devout bourgeoisie have been one of the significant determinants of this transformation.