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In contrast to the Gramscian thesis, this contribution shows that repression is not antinomic with the reinforcement of state legitimacy. It examines, based on the case of contemporary Turkey, how a political party which control the state, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), can produce repressive mechanisms, in which the civilian population participates, that consolidate its legitimacy. Resources are distributed and behaviors are rewarded or repressed according to their conformity with a new form of ‘citizenship’ (“vatandaşlık”) defined through partisan logics. These mechanisms allow the AKP-state to produce subjectivities that are both dominated and active in the maintenance of exclusionary and punitive dispositifs. Coercive practices are encouraged by the AKP-state and used to control dissenting conducts within society. Using the register of the “terrorist threat”, the encouragement of participatory repression is legitimised and reinforced by the digitalisation of technologies of power.