Is Turkey’s Justice and Development Party a future model for the Arab world?

Wednesday, July 23,2008 05:39

By The Century Foundation,and the Heinrich Boell Foun

The Century Foundation and the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
5/15/2008 The Century Foundation

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) is now engaged in a political struggle with the country’s secular establishment, and the outcome is unclear. Western governments had hoped the party’s leaders could create a model of governance for Islamic parties in the Arab world. But how does this play in the Arab world? What happens now that Turkey’s constitutional court has moved to oust the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and close down the country’s biggest and most successful political party? Representatives from the region discussed these and other related issues at a press briefing hosted by The Century Foundation and the Heinrich Boell Foundation.

Featuring:

Abdulhamit Bilici, Deputy Editor in Chief of Zaman Daily

Ibrahim El-Houdaiby, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt

Abderazzak Makri, Movement for the Society of Peace in Algeria

Mohamed Yatim, Deputy Secretary General of the Party of Justice and Development in Morocco

Geneive Abdo, Fellow, The Century Foundation, and author of works on contemporary Islam

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