Democratization in Turkey under AKP Government

The term “freedom of expression” is quite broad and holistic. It includes, within its ambit, not only the conventional freedom speech media, but also thoughts, cultural expression, conscience, intellectual inquiry. Freedom expression ensures an individual's right to express his/her views openly domain constitution, which contains be criticial prevailing injustices, illegal, anti-social activities, incompetence failure ¬¬¬the government. All this with a guarantee safety without any apprehension or fear retaliation. in contemporary times, embraces informed seek information by public, opinions, advocate amendments, including changing regime resorting violent means through peaceful measures available public domain, reasonable restrictions. In past decade half, Turkish experience as transitional democracy presents interesting case study explain how state causally related EU-driven reform process undertaken ruling AKP (Turkish: Adaletve Kalkınma Partisi) since year 2002, when party won Parliamentary elections Turkey for first time. issue about press has very long time, attracted great amount scholarly attention provoked extensive debate both inside outside Turkey. Although remains one rare West Asia, region strong monarchic semi-monarchic tradition government, series development years raised several interrogations qualitative quantitative aspects under AKP.