The title of this section refers to the following:

In the 1990s, Erdogan was jailed for his Islamist activities, and the Welfare Party was banned. He was released in the same period and announced publically that he would abandone Islamic politics.

However, in 2001, he formed a party that we all know as Islamist, the Justice & Development Party.

In 2003, Erdogan took revenge on those who had banned the Welfare Party and those who had put an end to the ruling of the first Islamist government. The beginning of a years-long campaign against the principles of secularism, which were laid out by the founder of the Turkish state in 1923 by Kemal Ataturk.

GLOSM started monitoring Turkey in 2007 when it found video reports about visible signs of the rise of Islamism in daily life. Other developments, which at first did look as unrelated, appear also to be these signs. They were sending the message that Erdogan has begun a process of replacing the system of secularism with those based on his Islamist ideas.

GLOSM views the so-called coup on July 15, 2016, as another response by the military against a sneaky, slow-paced coup d'etat by Erdogan himself.

Although GLOSM is against military rule in any country, in the case of Turkey, it is about safeguarding the principles of a nation, unfortunately by the military, 

GLOSM is still monitoring and documenting any development in this regard.