Let me point out here, that in most areas imaginable, the AKP has been more democratic, more secular (under pressure) and more europeanist than the Kemalist parties - by far.  To even debate this as if it should be an issue in a democratic society, is pointless. Erdogan's party is vastly less religious fundamentalist than extremist christian parties in the Netherlands, say.

It's an irony of history perhaps, but the road to Turkey's democratization passes through the islamic party...

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake