The AKP is an Islamist party - this cliche was invented in the West. When Erdogan did not object to the West on any issue concerning foreign policy, they praised him; during the "Arab Spring" the West even presented Erdogan's Turkey as an example to Muslim countries. But when Erdogan began to pursue a foreign policy independent from the West, they began to brand him as an Islamist, an authoritarian leader, sometimes even a dictator. Note: the German Christian Democratic Party is not a religious party, but the AKP is religious! Even in Turkey itself, mainly opposition-minded people, following the West (or rather, at the West's prompting), accuse the AKP and Erdogan personally of Islamism. At the same time, none of them apparently think to call the CDU a Christian, religious party.
This is all nonsense.
This is done specifically in order to have a pretext for putting pressure on Turkey if necessary.
Islamism today is mostly a major tool used by the enemies of Islam to undermine, control and if required destroy Muslim majority societies. AK party along with their FETO buddies are the very definition of Islamists. If you pay attention, one their hallmarks is turning the nation in on itself. This has taken place in Turkiye where incrementally they attack everything Turkish, while they promote everything against Turkish interests like the heavy promotion of Kurdish nationalism/terrorism. Patriots like the various soldiers are thrown in jail, meanwhile PKK, Islamist terrorists any shithead whose against Turkishness can roam freely within the state. Just like in Europe now, if your against Turkiye all the doors will open to you. Defend Turkiye and the system will isolate you.
Let me focus on FETO as just one example of the western(euro-origin) poison that is "political Islam" or rather just Islamists. For years I used to argue with people that these guys are traitors, enemies of the republic, enemies of the Turkish race and above all enemies of Islam. Their media like daily zaman would even run with articles telling Turks we should come to terms with the unproven and one sided allegations of genocides we supposedly committed on the armenians, kurds, greeks, assyrians, whatever minority they could come up with. It would hide behind Islam, it would divert Muslims by claiming it wasn't the Ottomans it was the western Young Turks and Ataturk. And as good Muslims we must come to terms with their pain and condemn the "Nationalist Turks, the secularists". Just like the kurdish islamist uprising against Ataturk was instigated by the British, these traitors are turned into national heroes.
When I say destroy that is not hyperbolic the accusations of genocides and atrocities is used to delegitimise Turkish sovereignty while legitimising the territorial expansionist aims of our neighbours. Today when you hit the PKK the entire international news spectrum says your killing "Kurds" to imply the Turkish states war against Kurds. Every single avenue does this now, despite the millions of islamists out there, we see no efforts anywhere from them to defend the Turkish position.
The common Muslim was brainwashed to believe that "political islamists" were his friends and allies, meanwhile actual Turks, patriots were enemies of Islam and by extension them. I don't want repeat all the details.
Anyway fast forward and the western backed and financed political islamists have a split, overnight those same FETO terrorists, so called Muslims, so called pushing for the revival of an Islamic state, the Ummah boys, become the most openly hostile entity on earth against Turkiye. They become the most ardent propogandists of accusing Turkiye of turning into an islamo-fascist state that murders its minorities. When they had the nation fooled they were the good pious muslims working towards neo-Ottomanism. They were all about Islam and Muslims, in reality they were the greatest danger and threat to Muslims.
Islamists and Political Islam is being used to destroy not just Turkiye but the entire region. As for the Kurds, the plan is to separate them and then eventually the euro-origin power will move in and destroy them the same way the Palestinians are being destroyed today. The Turkish state is being destroyed and political islam has been the biggest reason for that, your all fooling yourselves if you think ceeding autonomy, opening the nation to millions of refugees, while undermining everything Turkish is going to lead to a strong nation. Your being set up for the complete destruction of the state. I give it 50 years max. Minorities would do well to learn from history once the Turks lost the strength to keep the white man out. And remember while they promote the PKK and Kurds against Turkiye, when it came to Kurds crossing the border in Poland it turned into protecting Europe's borders and keeping the evil brown savage out.
As a Muslim first and a Turk second, "Political Islam" is the greatest threat facing my people. Its the greatest threat facing Islamic civilisation and why is that? Because nearly all serious political islamist organisations are western created and ran. But it makes sense if im american and i want to screw muslims, im going to give them Muslim/Islamist leaders. Thats how the game works, they deceive you according to what you believe.