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A. K. P-NESS: The Condition of Being AKP, Turkey's Ruling Islamic Party

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The AKP, the Islamic ruling party in Turkey, the Adalet ve KalkÄ ±nma Partisi, the Justice and Development Party which brought neither justice nor developmentà ‚¬"

The AKP, seven years in office spent worrying about whether a woman should touch a man's hand, and calling it modernityà ‚¬"

The AKP, seven years in office, squeezing the heads of women into headscarves, covering their bodies in bedsheets, and calling it freedomà ‚¬"

The AKP, seven years in office with a prime minister who has grabbed responsibility for both women's ovaries and men's testes (and use thererof) by encouraging, at the top of his lungs, the production of at least three children in each family, and calling it democracyà ‚¬"

The AKP, seven years in office, still banning thousands of websites, in the name of moralityà ‚¬"

The AKP, seven years in office, still spewing nonsense that the reason Turkey was spared epidemics in the 16th century was due to the Islamic religious ablution five times a dayà ‚¬"

The AKP, seven years in office, and its education ministry still distributes maps to students that depict Armenia, Bulgaria and Georgia residing within Turkish bordersà ‚¬"

The AKP, seven years in office, falsely imprisoning doctors, journalists, writers, businessmen, former military officers, and labor union leaders for their dissenting political views and depriving them of the constitutionally guaranteed rightsà ‚¬"

The AKP, seven years in office, and now picking a mindless quarrel with Israel to satisfy its egomaniacal cravingsà ‚¬"

The AKP, seven years in office, conducting stealth foreign policy initiatives under the direction of western puppet masters that lead to alienation, humiliation, and embarrassment for the Turkish people, and the Turkish Armyà ‚¬"

The AKP, seven years in office, resulting in fabulous wealth to party members, their families, and their special friendsà ‚¬"

The AKP, seven years in office looting the nation and trashing its culture, and calling it developmentà ‚¬"

And now this same AKP, is preparing for the big cultural event of next year by continuing to do what it does best... the P-word...PLUNDER!

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James (Cem)Ryan is a writer living in Istanbul, Turkey. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he has a MFA from Columbia University.

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