Chapter 6. Conclusion: Evaluating the politics of the AKP in light of the analyses

The initial motivation for this study was to understand the ways in which the AKP tries to maintain and expand its political hegemony through specific discursive strategies which are conceptualized as hegemonic projects. Once these traits are identified in the analysis, the relevance of the different positions and conceptualizations of the party and its functions can be assessed and interpreted. In line with these aims, the last chapter (1) summarizes the theoretical and methodological grounding, (2) evaluates the findings in detail and (3) assesses the validity of the claims and interprets the results on the discursive level by taking the wider socio-political context into account as an indispensable component of DHA. In the last part, concluding remarks, shortcomings and ideas for the future research are shared with the reader.