مجلة دراسات إقلیمیة

الملخص

Justice & Development party in Turkey was born to practice a new policy in accordance to its Islamic program and to handle Turkish society affairs and to benefit from experiences of the previous Turkish Islamic parties in politics taking into consideration the way to achieve these programs without offending secularism of Turkey and its political regime of Ataturk.
The case of veil has come to be one of the main issues in the party being a port of personal freedom. This has enforced its position inside the parliament to reach the presidency and to secure a basic role in amending some articles of the constitution. This trend is being faced by some powers of secularism which started inside the Turkish politics to work against AKP and prohibiting it for it went beyond its red lines. Thus , these powers considered the issue of veil being a ring of struggle between secularism and Islam.
In view of this , this study contains two themes: The first talks about the establishment of AKP and how it reached the rule while the second concentrates on the issue of veil from the beginning and how the party takes interest and its future by showing the position of secular powers towards the party.