The AKP's rise to power in 2002 marked the first time Turkey had ruled a government with a parliamentary majority, ending a four-decade haemorrhage of 4-decade-long coalition governments between 1960 and 2002, one every 57 months marked by administrative corruption, political violence, economic stagnation, and poor public services.
The visitor to Turkey from neighboring countries did not feel that he was coming out of a developing country to another developed country, but many Arab cities were more organized, and their universities did not leave Istanbul or Ankara an opportunity to attract Arab youth to study in them, and then everything changed in a short time after the advent of the Justice and Development Party, as Turkey entered the field of breaking records to become the administrative, social, industrial, academic and service model, regional and global.
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has become a party that came to power through the ballot box and cannot be removed by the ballot box, because the majority believes that its fall means the return of Turkey to the era of coalition governments and the cessation of the wheel of advancement and the decline of civil society that it has been characterized by during the past two decades in favor of sectarian and terrorist currents that allied with the opposition in the elections and threaten the stability of the state.
The Turkish people took to the streets in 2016 to repel the attempted military coup and defend the state and the political system despite their intellectual differences, and returned on May 14, 2023, putting the election of the Justice and Development Party ahead of the crises of the economy, earthquake and immigration, which indicates that the safety of the state was the focus of the elections and not the services that the voter still believes that the "Justice and Development" is the most faithful to his promises about it, even after a while, but this phenomenon was not sweeping.
The Justice and Development Party ruled Turkey through a majority government united by both the starting point and the goal, which allows the process of strategic and structural reform that the country desperately needs, and adopted the hierarchical system of central governments, and its institutions penetrated all segments of society, and chose for itself a political discourse that accommodated everyone, so everyone rode on its train and was born for the first time since 1918 a national sense of hope that blew up the voluntary and administrative energy of the new Turkey, and the Turks' dedication to the renaissance of their country until their state became a local, regional and continental force.
In the face of this picture, political action – which is divided by premises and united by the end (undermining the pillars of the political system), and which takes horizontal formations and uses sectarian discourse – becomes one of the colors of militias that contradict the idea of the state even if these militias do not appear in spotted uniforms and a Kalashnikov rifle.
The AKP has been subjected to multiple attacks to remove it from power outside the state systems, including:
Each of these attempts has endangered the political system and put Turkey back in contact with the vacuum that the AKP government filled two decades ago.
A Turkish analyst said, "It is a shame to elect a great leader who elevated his country to the ranks of great powers like Erdogan by 49.5%."
In Turkey, there is a political and social treasury keen on the safety of the state that appeared in its best form in defending the state against the military coup attempt in 2016 and responding to the call of the political system with which it agrees and disagrees, and this is a precious equation in the state entity.
The concept of coup in Turkey is traditionally associated with the army and the appearance of the tank, but the means of coup are numerous today, including the invisible (social media), and since things are by their purposes and not by their means, the state is the adjudicator in judging the parties.
This concept is not prominent enough in the Turkish elections, and Turkey cannot mortgage its renaissance and global status with fragile elections that are decided by decimals, as the political and social treasury is able to resolve elections in favor of the state when it sees that it is at stake, and it is, and the Justice and Development Party - which was able to redefine the concept of development and rode the people in its train - is able to renew the concept of the state that will serve national and regional security, and Turkey has important cards in Turkey's hands for this task.