Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey
Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey explores the role of religion (Sunni, Hanefi Islam) in the transformation of Turkey under the reign of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP).
The chapters argue that the Turkish understanding of secularism was also one of the building blocks and the constitutive elements of Turkeys modernization until the rise of the AKP. Currently, however, it seems that religion has become a new or re-born element of the new Turkey and has been transforming many areas such as: the media, the Kurdish issue, implementation of the rule of law, foreign policy and gender issues. This book therefore aims to scrutinize the question: how does a religion-based transformation in Turkey influence the raison detat of the state, and effect in various ways different areas such as gender, foreign policy, economy and socio-political relations of various power groups within the society?
Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey will be of great interest to scholars of Religion and Politics and governance in Turkey. It was originally published as a special issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.
M. Hakan Yavuz is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, USA. His current projects focus on transnational Islamic networks in Central Asia and Turkey; the role of Islam in state-building and nationalism; ethnic cleansing and genocide; and ethno-religious conflict management. He is an author of nine books and around 60 articles on Islam, nationalism, the Kurdish question and modern Turkish politics. He has published in Comparative Politics, Middle East Critique, Middle East journal, Oxford journal of Islamic Studies, SAIS Review, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Current History, Central Asian Survey, Journal of Islamic Studies and Journal of Palestine Studies. Some of his articles are translated into Arabic and Bosnian from English. He is an editorial member of Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs and Critique.
Ahmet Erdi ztrk is Lecturer of Politics and International Relations at London Metropolitan University and visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Birmingham, UK. He is the co-editor of the Edinburgh University Press Series on Modern Turkey. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), at Linkoping University, Sweden. He is the co-editor oi Authoritarian Politics in Turkey: Elections, Resistance and the AKP (2017) as well as three special issues on religion, politics and authoritarianism. He is the author of more than 20 articles on religion and global politics and modern Turkish politics. His work has been published in Politics and Religion, Journal of European Political Science, Religion, Ideology and Politics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Journal of Critical Studies on Terrorism, Oxford Bibliographies, Journal of Research and Politics on Turkey, Muslim Year Book and Journal of Balkan and Near East Studies. He is a regular contributor to media outlets such as Open Democracy, The Conversation, Huffington Post and France 24.
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Todays crises in the eastern Mediterranean, the multivalent developments in Turkey, and European integration and democratisation challenges have focused scientific and political attention on Southeast Europe and the wider Black Sea area. The Southeast Europe and Black Sea Series publishes multidisciplinary original research about these current hotspots on the margins of Europe. The volumes include comparative and individual country analysis, as well as innovative research that develops deep and fruitful understanding of these regions. The series engages academic and original policy-oriented books with such themes as the politics of state-building and reform, foreign and security policy, socio-cultural phenomena and socio-economic dynamics, EU enlargement and neighbourhood policies. The series also publishes books that advance our understanding of recent history in this broad area - from Slovenia to Ukraine, south to Greece, Cyprus and Turkey, and east to the Caucasus - and its relevance for contemporary problems.
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