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In the wake of the attacks of September 11, policymakers have been struggling to understand what might lead radical Islamist movements to moderate their views. In a similar vein, the recent electoral success of moderate Islamists in Tunisia and Egypt has received a great deal of attention and raised a timely question regarding the issue. In this respect, the transition of political Islam into a mainstream party in Turkey and Egypt since the late 1990s has thus attracted significant policy and scholarly interest. The remarkable soft landing of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) has illustrated that previously rigid fundamentalists were ready to compromise their political programs. As Fawaz Gerges suggests, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) may be evolving in a similar direction. Turkey’s pro-Islamic AKP is particularly remarkable, because the party articulated pragmatic policies and was swept to victory in the 2002, 2007, and 2011 general elections, and formed a third consecutive single party government.
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Ji-Hyang, J. (2012). Islamic Capital and Democratic Deepening. In: Henry, C., Ji-Hyang, J. (eds) The Arab Spring. Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344045_9
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