TÜSİAD is considered Turkey's secular, pro-Westernization business organization (For its pious Muslim counterpart see MÜSİAD).[5] In the early 2000s, TÜSIAD coordinated heavily with the newly elected AKP majority, with the shared aim of joining the European Union.[6] TÜSIAD is also credited with laying the groundwork for Turkish support for the Annan Plan on Cyprus.[7] However, as the EU accession process began to deteriorate in 2006, then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's administration reversed course away from the EU, driving a wedge between the two.