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Justice and Development Party
History of Turkey
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| | 2001 | Erdogan, Recep Tayyip | |
| 14th Aug The Justice and Development Party emerges from the remnants of former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan's Welfare Party, which was forcibly dismantled four years after Erbakan's 1997 resignation as a result of the 1997 Army coup d'‚tat |
| 2002 | Gul, Abdullah | |
| Nov The Islamist based Justice & Development party wins a landslide victory |
| 2003 | Erdogan, Recep Tayyip | |
| People with convictions can stand for political off |
| Mar Gul resigns to allow Erdogan to become Prime Minister |
| 2004 | Erdogan, Recep Tayyip | |
| In the local elections of 2004, the AKP wins an unprecedented 42% of the valid votes |
| The AKP has undertaken significant structural reforms and its policy achievements have seen rapid growth and an end to Turkey's three decade long period of hyperinflation-inflation had fallen to 8.8% by June 2004 |
| 2005 | Erdogan, Recep Tayyip | |
| the AKP is admitted as an observer member in the European People's Party (EPP), the conservative party of the EU |
| 2007 | Erdogan, Recep Tayyip | |
| 22nd July Overall, the AKP secures a plurality of votes in 68 of Turkey's 81 provinces, with its strongest vote of 71% coming from Bing”l |
| 22nd July The AKP achieves a landslide victory in the rescheduled July 22 2007 elections with 46.6% of the vote, translating into control of 341 of the 550 available parliamentary seats |
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