After Virtue was also outlawed in 2001, the modernists, including Gul and Erdogan, founded the AKP, adopting a centre-right, pro-Western agenda and declaring full respect for Turkey's secularist establishment.
Nakon što je i ova stranka zabranjena 2001. godine, modernisti, među kojima su bili Gul i Erdogan, utemeljili su AKP, usvojivši prozapadni program desnog centra i proglasivši puno poštivanje sekularnog uređenja Turske.