Party leader and current Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was once sentenced to jail for Islamic sedition, and the AKP continues to be viewed with wariness by Turkish liberals and the country's secularist military.
Čelnik stranke i trenutačni premijer Recep Tayyip Erdogan svojedobno je bio osuđen na zatvorsku kaznu zbog islamske promidžbe, i turski liberali i sekularna vojska na AKP i dalje gledaju sa zabrinutošću.