June 13, 2011

Islamic Liberalism -- The Challenges Facing the AKP

Ahmad Ali Khalid*

Muslim democrats and liberals are looking at the recent Turkish elections with a sense of anticipation and expectation.

Is the Justice and Development Party (AKP) now going to evolve further to extend its discourse of liberal democracy, human rights, economic liberalization and modernization couched within a certain cosmopolitan and pluralist Islamic ethos or has this great political experiment run its course?