"I liked him a lot, and I liked the party as well," Emine says, when asked why she has voted for Erdogan for the past 20 years. The author of, “Mainstreaming the Headscarf: Islamist Politics and Women in the Turkish Media,” Ozcan cites the fact that veiled women can now serve as police officers, judges, university professors or elected political representatives – all of which was against the law unless they removed their headscarves until the AKP came to power. These women identify as Muslims and they don’t want to see Muslims as oppressors