Erdoğan's Triumph, in Financial Times, 24 luglio 2007. URL consultato il 10 maggio 2021 (archiviato dall'url originale il 7 marzo 2021).
«The AKP is now a national conservative party — albeit rebalancing power away from the westernised urban elite and towards Turkey's traditional heartland of Anatolia — as well as the Muslim equivalent of Europe's Christian Democrats.»