This study is an initial attempt to understand the complexity of deveiling at a time when the headscarf has finally received ultimate respect and recognition by the Turkish state after decades of non-toleration and humiliation. After explaining how the merging of political Islam and the Turkish state led to the monopolization of public Islam by erasing the multiplicity of meanings underlying Islamic ethical practices, the paper portrays the search of pious Muslim women for their own subjectivity without falling into the binary of Islamist and secularist political projects.  Why this can be named a search for a non-politicized piety is discussed through the narratives of six informants, who are aware of the instrumentalization of the women’s sartorial styles by utilitarian political discourses and who actively desire to distance themselves from these by an act of deveiling while maintaining their adherence to Islamic ethical norms. These narratives reveal that, the attempt of cultivating a non-politicized piety still takes place within and in relation to the political upheavals created by the political rule as it shifts into authoritarianism. Contrary to popular accounts of deveiling as a total repudiation of Islamic norms, the cases of deveiling in this study aim to show how their act of deveiling communicates an intricate form of political and religious agency expressed from within an insecure, vulnerable position.