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The Justice and Development Party (AKP) emerged out of the Welfare Party (RP), which was a political Islamist party, and came to power in 2002. The AKP’s politics and discourse are characterized by conservative democracy, which claims to combine the traditional lifestyle inspired by Islam with the Western liberal values that are based on the free market and globalization. The AKP’s orientation, which is based on the contradictory attitudes of Islam and the West, is quite different from traditional Islamic discourse. After the political victory of the AKP, the debates about the relationship between Islam and the functions of Imam-Hatip schools (IHSs) significantly increased. IHSs, which were founded as a control mechanism of the state over religion, turned out to be a vote-hunting tool of the populist right-wing, and after the 1970s, these schools became the sources of the grassroots of Islamist parties. |
