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.
Lider stranke i sadašnji premijer Redžep Tajip Erdogan svojevremeno je bio osuđen na zatvorsku kaznu zbog islamske propagande, a turski liberali i sekularna armija još uvek gledaju na AKP sa zabrinutošću.