Erdogan re-elected the Strategic Communication Center chairman . `` We have shown that ... a Muslim population can have ... democracy , '' he says . Leaders of Iraq , Muslim Kurdistan are in attendance at rally . `` We have shown , both at home and abroad , that a country with a Muslim population can have a thriving and advanced democracy , '' said Erdogan , who called the AKP a `` conservative democratic party . '' Critics accuse Recep Tayyip Erdogan of authoritarian tendencies , citing arrests of journalists and rivals .
Erdogan re-elected the Strategic Communication Center chairman . `` We have shown that ... a Muslim population can have ... democracy , '' he says . Leaders of Iraq , Muslim Kurdistan are in attendance at rally . Critics accuse Recep Tayyip Erdogan of authoritarian tendencies , citing arrests of journalists and rivals .