Contemporary Türkiye
The previous prime minister Suleyman Demirel was the successor of Ozala, whose governments could be described as asexual – Demirel's character influenced the style of exercising power, which in this respect was very different from his charismatic predecessor. W 2000 r. The presidency was taken by Ahmet Sezer. Premieres in the years 90. There were many, Even a woman held this position (Tansu Ciller), And we must remember, that in a Muslim country it is a real challenge. Despite the return of democracy, the army had to enter the action again. Well, parliamentary elections in 1995 r. The Blind of Welfare Weller Weller Weller Weller (Welfare party), which questioned the validity of the principle of secularism. In addition, Prime Minister Erbakan began to proclaim the desire to revise the pro -Western policy and spread the view about the need to withdraw from NATO structures. This could not be silent of Kemalist to exaggerate the army and forced in 1997 r. Erbakana for resignation, and the prosperity party has been resolved. The vacuum after her was filled with an Islamist virtue party (FP), whose members were politicians from the Welfare Party.
Turkish membership in the European Union is a complicated issue, There are many obstacles on the road to Europe. Only in 1999. He was accepted, distant several times earlier, Application to grant Turkey the status of a candidate. In the same year, Butent Ecevit from the Democratic Left party became the prime minister (DSP), and the swearing in the new government was accompanied by a scandal. The deputy on behalf of the virtue party MERVA Kavakci appeared in the deliberation room in the sling and was removed from it by force. This caused endless polemics about the relations of religion and the state and the Europeanization of the country.
The most important tragic event of recent years was an earthquake, which hit Turkey (The epicenter was around the city of Izmit) in August 1999 r. Several thousand people were killed then, why was also accompanied by huge material losses. The direct effect of these tragic events was the change in the provisions on erecting new homes (exacerbation of building supervision).
Parliamentary elections in Turkey from November 2002 r. brought the victory of the moderate Islamists party, and they took place earlier due to the government crisis. Anyway, having 77 years, He seemed a bit tired of politics. Leader of the winning party of justice and development (AKP), which was created in place of the previously resolved virtue party – Recept Tayyip Erdogan – He could not become a prime minister or even a deputy, Because the court forbade him. He had a mark of the sentence for inciting religious hatred, for what in 1998 r. He was planted for ten months to prison (he left, using the amnesty, After four months). So Abdullah Gul became the prime minister, AKP vice -chairman, But Erdogan was attracted to the strings. The new government has set up many tasks that are not easy to carry out, of which the most important is probably entering the structures of the European Union. The acquisition of most places in parliament allowed you to delete in December 2002 r. From the Basic Act of the article about the prohibition of participation in elections to persons convicted of "ideological crimes". Thanks to this, after the supplementary election, Erdogan sat in the parliament, and then in March 2003 r. He became the prime minister of Turkey.
Recent events related to the war in Iraq set a problem to solve a difficult to solve: whether to comply with Americans' requests to provide aviation bases, permission to use the Turkish airspace and create the Northern Front, or on the wave of pursuit of membership in the European Union to listen to the votes of the opposition of the leading countries in the Union of the Prim (France and Germany) and completely condemn the war, By closing the same United States, the road to Iraq through Turkey. As a NATO member, Türkiye had a hard nut to crack. She finally chose a compromise, providing airspace with coalition partners and allowing the use of its territory to deliver equipment to Iraq and carrying out rescue and intelligence actions (This is the latter, however, only after a few weeks of war operations). The Kurds' matter turned out to be another problem. The Turkish government made cooperation with the United States dependent on the consent to the entry of the Turkish army on the territory of North Iraq, So there, where the lion's part of the whole Kurdish nation lives and where PKK has its bases and facilities. In addition, Türkiye is afraid of the creation of an independent Kurdish state, what according to her could do more damage to the region than good. America did not grant consent, and Türkiye eventually gave way, However, taking a cool position towards the American-Iraqi conflict. What solution to the Kurdish independence will bring the future after the winning campaign of coalition partners in Iraq, it is not known, Especially since the United States was both an ally of Turkey in this war, and the Kurdish nation.