Mr Erdogan's enemies claim that AK's moves to trim the army's powers are not to do with its European Union aspirations but with a desire to cement religious rule.
Co-sponsors include U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), U.S. Senator Mark Begich (D-AK), U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA).
In the 2007 election it scraped in a distant second, with 21% to AK's 47%.
AK's case has not been helped by the lacklustre candidates it is fielding in the south-east.
One drawback is that, at grassroots level, the CHP is a shadow of the AK's electoral machine.
Mr Erdogan may be succeeded as AK's candidate by his deputy, Abdullah Gul, who is considered a moderate, newspapers say.
Meanwhile, the only overtly Islamist party, Saadet, which had previously been nibbling away at AK's pious base, is riven by internal squabbles.
All of this has sharpened fears that, with AK's blessing, Mr Gormez will steer Diyanet, which is responsible for managing Turkey's preachers and mosques, in a conservative direction.
Yet even AK's biggest fans worry that the legitimacy of the Ergenekon case is being dented by heavy-handed tactics such as the arrests of Mr Sik and Mr Sener.
U.S. sales of the civilian versions of the famous Kalishnikov AK-47 s, old under the brand name Saiga, rose by 50% in 2011, The New York Times reported from Russia on Aug 14, 2012.
These flourished into a full-blown strategic partnership in the 1990s, before the AK party's rise, when peace between Palestinians and Israelis seemed possible.
Mr Erdogan's AK party, he adds, has also begun to embrace Islam more firmly at home, suggesting some influence of religious ideology over foreign policy.
Ennahda, which was banned under Ben Ali, says it has modelled itself on Turkey's governing AK Party, another Muslim-majority country which has remained a secular state.
To this end, according to a report this week in The Hindu, since Erdogan's Islamist AK Party formed its first government in 2003, it has been actively cultivating ties with Muslim Brotherhood movements throughout the region.
The decision came after India's Defence Minister AK Antony met his Chinese counterpart General Liang Guanglie.
After the failure of repeated attempts to get him elected through parliament, the AK Party called Sunday's election in an effort to ease the deadlock.
Until last summer Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development (AK) party had been holding secret talks with the PKK in Oslo and with its imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan.
The report said the U.S. commander in charge of training Iraqi forces reported about 185, 000 AK-47 rifles, 170, 000 pistols, 215, 000 items of body armor, and 140, 000 helmets were issued to Iraqi security forces as of September 2005, while the accounting books from the U.S. military contained records for only about 75, 000 AK-47 rifles, 90, 000 pistols, 80, 000 items of body armor, and 25, 000 helmets.
Turkey has serious problems of its own, starting with a court case that threatens to outlaw the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party for threatening the country's secular order.
She's eating local dishes like diri ak djon-djon (rice with black mushrooms), getting all the village gossip from her father and getting respite from the summer heat in the river that snakes down from the mountains.
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American firearms are in high demand because Mexico's firearm laws are highly restrictive and high-powered weapons such as the AK-47-style pistol are deemed for the exclusive use of the Mexican military, U.S. prosecutors said in court documents.
That has largely gone since Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) Party shot to single-party rule in 2002.
Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party blames the PKK and what it considers to be its provocations for the collapse.
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When Turkey's prime minister visited the city last year, the local mayor, who belongs to Mr Erdogan's mildly Islamist Justice and Development (AK) party, sought to avoid his ire by ordering the removal of a public fountain featuring bare-breasted nymphs.
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One person has been injured in explosions at Turkey's justice ministry and the headquarters of the governing AK Party in Ankara, officials say.
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