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The ruling party right now is a religious party, you might say the Islamic version of our European Christian Democrats, but they are the third or forth party to have come out of its banned predecessor. The army has overthrown the government several times in the 1980s and they still threaten to do that when they feel there is too much 'chaos' or Atatürk's secular state is under threat. The latest constitutional crisis was over who should be president. The army was not prepared to accept the AK party's candidate (Ak means white btw), but in the end the army gave in.