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AKP and National Socialism
Measured distance across six axes
The same broad family. They agree within three points on EC, CU, AU, SC. They diverge by eight points or more on CH.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Justice and Development Party | NSDAP | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +04 | +02 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +08 | +09 | 1 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +08 | +10 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +07 | +09 | 2 | Agrees | Effectively the same position. Not what an argument between them is about. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +06 | +10 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −01 | +09 | 10 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
Each axis runs from −10 to +10; the distance is the straight-line separation across all six at once, out of a maximum of 49.0. How the scoring works →
The evidence behind the widest gaps
A distance figure is worth nothing unless the scores behind it can be checked. These are the artefacts supporting the axes that separate these two most.
Justice and Development Party · CH −01
Coded near neutral: change by referendum and legislation, under emergency powers after 2016.
- Documented act or statuteRule by emergency decree from July 2016 to July 2018 dismissed over one hundred thousand public employees.
NSDAP · CH +09
The party came to office through a legal appointment and then abolished the mechanism that produced it, having already run a decade of paramilitary street violence.
- Documented act or statuteThe SA numbered in the hundreds of thousands and functioned as a standing political militia from 1921.
- Documented act or statuteNo competitive national election was held after March 1933.
What this comparison does not establish
Proximity means similarity of stated position. It carries no claim about competence, circumstance, scale of operation, or what either organisation actually did to the people under it. Two organisations can sit close together and produce entirely different histories, because those things are not on any axis and could not be.
AKP
2001– · Turkey
Conservative religious identity, national sovereignty, and a strong presidency claiming direct popular mandate.
National Socialism
1920–1945 · Germany
A racially defined national community, hierarchy by blood, conquest of living space, extermination of designated enemies.
Distance is not the whole answer. Two organisations can sit the same distance apart for entirely different reasons, and the reason is the content of any claim about them. Open the comparison in the atlas to weight the axes yourself.
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