As a notable exception in the Arab world due to its secularity, Turkey is now paradoxically attracting attention due to its Islamism–“or, more precisely, its "post-Islamism," for although this political movement, whose roots date back some thirty years, won an outright victory in the November 2002 legislative elections, it now appears to have suddenly dissipated in the midst of a rapidly changing Turkish democracy. How can this spectacular transformation be explained? Who are these ex-Islamists of the AKP (who are also fierce supporters of European integration), who now define themselves as "democratic conservatives"?