This paper focuses on the last stage of Justice and Development Party's rule (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) in Turkey. It aims to elaborate on the rising tide of authoritarian practices at governmental level that is accompanied by moralism at the societal level. The main argument of the paper is that the AKP's rule in Turkey since 2002 displays an example of regime transition from secular Republicanism to religion based authoritarian rule with fascistic tunes. In the pursuit of this argument I adopt a feminist reading and thus tie the regime transition to the change in the form of patriarchy. My reading unfolds in three parts. In the first part I offer an outline of the AKP's gender regime in institutional terms. In the second part, I focus on the AKP governments' discourses on feminism and rights-based socio-political opposition. In the third and concluding part I offer a tentative discussion on the extensions and limitations of reading the regime transition in Turkey in feminist terms.