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AKP and UK Labour Party
Measured distance across six axes
Opposed programmes with little shared ground. No axis places them within three points of each other. They diverge by eight points or more on CU, AU, ID.
Axis by axis
| Axis | Justice and Development Party | UK Labour Party | Gap | Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC · Economic organisation | +04 | −03 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| CU · Social and cultural order | +08 | −05 | 13 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| AU · Organisation of power | +08 | −03 | 11 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| SC · Scale of decision | +07 | +03 | 4 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
| ID · Rule of membership | +06 | −05 | 11 | Diverges | Carries the disagreement. Any claim that these two are alike has to explain this. |
| CH · Method and tempo | −01 | −08 | 7 | Differs | Real difference, but not the dividing line. |
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 · CU +08
Coded +8: a religious-conservative reordering of education, public space and family policy.
- Documented act or statuteWithdrawal from the Istanbul Convention on violence against women in 2021.
- Documented act or statuteExpansion of imam-hatip religious schooling and lifting of the headscarf ban in public institutions.
UK Labour Party · CU −05
Coded −5: liberal on social questions with recent qualification on gender recognition.
- Documented act or statuteIntroduced civil partnerships in 2004 and the Equality Act in 2010; equal marriage passed in 2013 with its support.
Justice and Development Party · AU +08
Constitutional change by referendum plus mass replacement of judiciary and media after 2016.
- Documented act or statuteThe 2017 referendum replaced the parliamentary system with an executive presidency and abolished the office of prime minister.
- Documented act or statuteOver four thousand judges and prosecutors were dismissed after the 2016 coup attempt.
UK Labour Party · AU −03
Coded −3: constitutional in method with a centralising executive record in office.
- Documented act or statuteDevolution to Scotland, Wales and London was created by the 1997 government.
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.
UK Labour Party
1900– · Britain
Growth first, public service investment, workers' rights, stability and fiscal credibility.
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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