Islam and Political Development in Turkey
Author: Toprak
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-04-19
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9004492143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Toprak
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-04-19
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9004492143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Angel Rabasa
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 0833045199
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Building sustained national resilience that is intolerant of terrorists and extremists and effective against them, he says, can only be accomplished by linking hard security initiatives with a broader array of policies designed to promote political, social, and economic stability."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Ümit Cizre
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-03-25
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1134155220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Turkey is ninty-nine per cent Muslim, its ruling party, Justice and Development Party (JDP), comes from but denies its Islamist pedigree and has a very secular feel. However, the deeply secular regime distrusts the JDP with regard to its 'true' colours. This book makes sense of these paradoxical perceptions which have characterized Turkey’s politics since the JDP has come to power in 2002. The key momentum for shaping the nature and trajectories of the ruling party of Turkey since 2002, the JDP, has been the ‘identity’ question. The JDP’s commitment to transform Turkey’s politics was part of its engagement to remake its own identity. The JDP’s adoption of a conservative-democrat identity has rested on a new understanding of Westernization, secularism, democracy and the role and relevance of Islam in politics. The book’s central problematic is to explain both the politics of change the JDP initiated and sustained in the first three years in office and the politics of retreat it has made from its reformist discourse since 2005. The book analyzes not just the catalysts for its reformist discourse of the first 3 years but tries to explain its reversal to an inward-looking conservative nationalist course. By approaching this topical debate from the conceptual stance rather than a party-centered approach, Ümit Cizre identifies that the change the JDP has initiated within Turkey’s political Islam and in Turkish politics is the product of an interactive process between many levels, actors, forces and historical periods. The forces and actors covered include: global forces of Islam the secular establishment and its popular extensions the past and present Islamic actors in political and non-political spheres the changing balance of forces in the region which frame the EU and the US policies toward the JDP. Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey is a valuable contribution to the study of globalization and ‘change’ in contemporary political Islam, the relationship between religion and politics, and secularism and political Islam. As such, it will be of interest to students and researchers alike in the area of Islamic politics, democratization, European Union and political Islam, and globalization.
Author: M Hakan Yavuz
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2006-05-29
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0874808634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explains the social, economic, and historical origins of the ruling Justice and Development Party, offering keen insight into one of the most successful transformations of an Islamic movement in the Muslim world.
Author: Angel Rabasa
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2008-06-17
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0833045318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Turkey, a Muslim-majority country, is pivotal to Western security interests in the Middle East. Its ruling party, the AKP, has Islamic roots but operates within a framework of strict secular democracy, which has generated controversy over the boundaries between secularism and religion. This monograph describes the politico-religious landscape in Turkey and evaluates how the balance between secular and religious forces has changed over the past decade.
Author: Evangelia Axiarlis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-06-20
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0857737988
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How safe is Turkey's liberal democracy? The rise to power in 2002 of the right-leaning Islamic Justice and Development Party ignited fears in the West that Turkey could no longer be relied upon to provide a buffer against the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East. Once hailed by the West as a model of secularism and moderation in the Muslim world, Turkey is now seen to be under the influence of the 'creeping Islamisation' of the JDP (or AKP as it is known in Turkey). Yet to what extent has this affected the lives of Turkish citizens? Evangelia Axiarlis here explores the contribution of the JDP to civil liberties and basic freedoms, long suppressed by secular and statist Kemalist ideology, and how this has remained unexamined despite more than a decade in government. In this - the first detailed study of the policies and ideology of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's government - the author examines the extent to which the JDP has worked to improve civil life in Turkey and critically addresses whether a government built on Islamic principles can champion political reform. Exploring how Islam and democracy are neither monoliths nor mutually exclusive, this is a timely contribution to the wider understanding of political Islam.
Author: Banu Eligür
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-04-12
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139486586
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Mobilization of Political Islam in Turkey explains why political Islam, which has been part of Turkish politics since the 1970s but on the rise only since the 1990s, has now achieved governing power. Drawing on social movement theory, the book focuses on the dominant form of Islamist activism in Turkey by analyzing the increasing electoral strength of four successive Islamist political parties: the Welfare Party; its successor, the Virtue Party; and the successors of the Virtue Party: the Felicity Party and the Justice and Development Party. This book, which is based on extensive primary and secondary sources as well as in-depth interviews, provides the most comprehensive analysis currently available of the Islamist political mobilization in Turkey.
Author: M. Hakan Yavuz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0521888786
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Islamist Justice and Development Party swept to power in Turkey in 2002. Since then it has shied away from a hard-line ideological stance in favour of a more conservative and democratic approach. This book asks whether it is possible for a political party with deeply religious ideology to liberalise and entertain democracy?
Author: Ali Çarkoğlu
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780415348317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyses the impact of religion in Turkish politics from historical and contemporary perspectives.
Author: Mehmet Yasar Geyikdagi
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
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