Where does the Justice and Development Partys (AK Party) psychology stand with regard to the EU process?
Among the mainstream parties, the AK Party is the one which did not sever its relations with nationalism but maintained a positive approach compared to the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). On the other hand, it cannot show a firm attitude, so this is why it frequently pitches and makes concessions. For example, Cemil Çiçek is still a minister and there have been no changes related to Article 301. What is the psychology of the AK Party in general? It does not aim at a radical change in Turkey. Just the opposite, it just wants to change the composition of the power structure a little bit. It wants to just add the rural, more local bourgeois to the Western, secular and city-based ones. If there is no opposition from the former powers, it does not have any problem with the existing structure. This is why there is noise being made over secularism. The former ones do not want this new bourgeois represented by the AK Party. Otherwise, the AK Party is o
