Newly vindicated, Turkey's ruling party remains an important model of democratic Islamist politics
By Galal Nassar
The JDP succeeded in scoring this double victory for itself and the Turkish people after having furnished evidence of its intent to abide by the country's democratic system instead of following in the footsteps of some of its ideological predecessors, whether from the left, the ultranationalist or the Islamist camps, and overturning the democratic order after reaching power through the electoral process. The party's commitment to democracy has been one of the factors that helped it expand its popularity from its original base of support among the rural population and its urban extension into the middle class.
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