I believe I can largely follow what you're getting at.

However, I still find the comparison between the AKP and the Iranian Shi'ite clergy rather troublesome: apart from the points mentioned above, it portrays the Shi'ite clergy as a more-or-less homogeneous group of conservatives, which isn't really true (compare Ahmadinejad from 8 years ago with someone as Ali Shariati or (more recently) Mehdi Karroubi). There is an interesting letter that I will try to localise (there is an English translation) between two Iranian clerics talking about the social contract.