With great fanfare, Turkey's Justice and Development Party, or AK Party opened its fourth congress in Ankara on Sunday.
In a sports arena in the capital, where the red carpet was re-named "the path of democracy", the party's leader and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed tens of thousands of supporters and foreign dignitaries.
The event was celebrating a decade of electoral success, strong economic growth and rising regional power.
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