1. No matter what the political crisis that seized Turkey in the past few years result in, its consequences will be meaningful far beyond the particularly national limits. The thing is, we are witnessing the deep process that has become of big international scale and might be termed as the Islam modernization, the country’s Europeanization, that is its joining to the European way of thinking and living, forming up sort of Islamic and Democratic synthesis.
2. The Turkish society is split. The joint forces of the Left-centers and Nationalists headed by the generals and supported by the liberal intellectuals assault the power of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which is called pro-Islamic or moderately Islamic in the West and in Russia. The AKP’s political opponents are sincere in their belief, that the policy of this ruling party is dangerous to the system of laicism, to the principles of secular government which Turkey follows since the times of Kemal Atatьrk (early 1920s), the founder of the modern Turkish state.
3. The Neo-Islamists proved to be capable to work out and implement the effective model of socio-economic development. The interethnic reconciliation project, now under operation, should be also acknowledged effective. The Justice and Development Party’s positioning as the political organization of the movement for Islamic democracy would give it no chance to be removed from the political arena, whatever is the outcome of the confrontation of the traditional political forces there. Similarly, it is impossible to picture the political life and future trends of social development in Turkey without participation of new forces guided by the Neo-Islamism.
4. The Turkish political establishment – the Kemalists, the Right and Left winger, the Nationalists - are not willing to perceive the Neo-Islamism as the objective phenomenon. But it is another thing that is much more important, namely – now, in their activities, they all cannot help reckoning with the Islamic factor. The future of this international political phenomenon is directly dependent on the ability of the world community to show tolerance, to apprehend the Islamic democracy not just as the theoretical doctrine but also as the new political trend, with which the common partnerships in the interstate relations may and need be developed.