Is this the end of the republic and Islamism?

Paradoxically, the end of the secular republic in Turkey also marks the end of Islamism or Islamist politics in Turkey and elsewhere. The Turkish Parliament is currently voting on a constitutional change that will usher in a so-called Turkish type of presidential system, or "President of the Republic System" as the governing party dubs it. This system is nothing but an authoritarian executive regime that not only promises less democracy, but also hints at the end of the secular regime once established. The supporters of the Islamist ruling party have already started to question the legitimacy of the secular political system, suggesting "a native sort of alternative democracy" more openly than before. 

We democrats and I, for one, supported the Islamists' critique of the rigid understanding and implementation of secularism in Turkey, especially in the 1990s. It was all in the name of democracy to challenge the idea of rigid republican secularism, since rigid republicanism refused to recognize the rights and freedoms of religious conservatives. Both in Turkey and elsewhere, the debate about the "republican emphasis on secularism against democratic rights and freedoms" has been a major intellectual and political issue for a long time. At the time, the Islamists who presented themselves as "moderates and democrats" denounced not only violence and radicalism, but also the idea of an Islamic state. At the end of the 1990s, the majority of Turkey's Islamists further denounced their ex-Islamist politics and declared themselves to be on the center right as "Conservative Democrats." The early 2000s were the years of the triumph of the happy idea of not only THE compatibility of Islam and democracy, but even the compatibility of Islamism and democracy. It was so...