“Beraber Yürüdük Biz Bu Yollarda”: AK PARTİ’nin Yol Hikayesi

This article analyses the social and political historical bases of Justice and Development Party in the edge of coming elections. Not rejecting the existing academic explanations, it aims to offer a new explanation on the interface of social and political history. For this sake, the course of conservative people through the Republican period and the political life from 90’s onwards are analysed. The main argument of the article is that Justice and Development Party can be understood on the interface of conservative people’s, who withdraw from social life after Republic, effort of coming back to the social sphere and of political conjecture of 90’s. This argument is supported with the help of sections from lives of conservative figures, whose life stories go back until the early republican period, and with the political, economical and social crisis Republic faced in the beginning of twenty first century. Also, it is argued that the detailed analysis of Justice and Development Party in particular and conservative masses in general will pave the way for new readings in the area of Turkish Modernization.