He was stripped of his position, banned from political office, and imprisoned for four months, for reciting a poem during a speech in 1998, after which he abandoned openly Islamist politics and established the moderate conservative AKP in 2001.
He was stripped of his position, banned from political office, and imprisoned for four months, for reciting a poem that promoted a religious point of view of government during a speech in 1998. Erdoğan abandoned openly Islamist politics and established the moderate conservative AKP in 2001.