At the forefront of the new challengers to AK Party dominance is Mustafa Sarigül, leader of the popular Change movement and currently mayor of Istanbul's leading borough, Sisili. "Turkey has shifted to the East and is moving further away from the democractic countries of the Euro-Atlantic region. It is drifting away from the principle of individual rights," Mr Sarigul said. "We need a new kind of politics that provides a different vision to that of the AK Party."