Airborne elephant watch forward

And this one from Turkey, where as you know the dread Islamists have been in power for ten years now, in the form of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi or AKP),  created out of the remnants of the Virtue Party and the Motherland Party. That is, they don't call themselves Islamist (unlike the Virtue element as it was before), but other people are glad to call them

"'Islamic,' 'Islamist,' 'mildly Islamist,' 'Islamic-oriented,' 'Islamic-leaning,' 'Islamic-based' or 'with an Islamic agenda,' and similar language is being used. These characterizations do not reflect the truth, and they sadden us,"

as former education minister Hüseyin Çelik remarked.

So how do they display their dread Islamic credentials? Are they banning alcohol?* Forcing women into purdah?

I'm not saying they're not oppressed, but they're not exactly veiled...

Chopping some of those thieves' hands off? Not exactly. Apparently [jump]

*Are you kidding? Turkey exported $68.4 million in beer alone in 2010—40% of it to Islam-ridden Iraq!