Radical Politics In Modern Turkey

A newly written introduction opens this collection, which brings together nearly seventy pieces of canonical and cutting-edge research covering all aspects of politics in Turkey from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the application for EU membership, a period of about eighty years representing one of the most dramatic modernization drives in any nation. Among issues covered are: secularism, democracy, US/Russian/Middle East/Turkish foreign policy issues, and the role of women in Turkish ...

VOLUME IV MAJOR ISSUES AND THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY TURKISH POLITICS PART 19 Democratization, politics of EU membership process 1 (82) Turkish political parties and the EU discourse in the post-Helsinki period: a case of Europeanization 3 (21) Gamze Avcı Turkey, Europe, and paradoxes of identity: perspectives on the international context of democratization 24 (25) Ziya Öniş The intellectual roots of anti-European sentiments in Turkish politics: the case of radical Turkish nationalism 49 (21) Nergis Canefe Tanıl Bora Europeanization in Turkey: trigger or anchor for reform? 70 (13) Nathalie Tocci PART 20 Identity issues 1: Religiosity and the rising salience of pro-Islamist movements 83 (142) Group-differentiated rights and the liberal democratic state: rethinking the headscarf controversy in Turkey 85 (14) Yeşim Arat Patronage, party, and state: the politicization of Islam in Turkey 99 (19) Sencer Ayata The conflictual agendas of neo-liberal reconstruction and the rise of Islamic politics in Turkey: the hazards of rewriting modernity 118 (23) Faruk Birtek Binnaz Toprak Religiosity, support for Seriat and evaluations of secularist public policies in Turkey 141 (26) Ali Çarkoğlu Transformation of Islamic political identity in Turkey: rethinking the West and westernization 167 (20) İhsan Dağı Secularism and Islamism in Turkey: the making of elites and counter-elites 187 (15) Nilüfer Göle The Turkish state and Alevis: changing parameters of an uneasy relationship 202 (17) Bedriye Poyraz Political Alevism versus political Sunnism: convergences and divergences 219 (6) Ruşen Çakır PART 21 Identity issues 2: Ethnicity and politics of Kurdish minority 225 (54) The Kurdish question and Turkey’s Justice and Development Party 227 (20) M. Hakan Yavuz Nihat Ali Özcan Citizenship and ethnicity in Turkey 247 (17) Mesut Yeğen The People’s Democracy Party 264 (15) Aylin Güney PART 22 Identity issues 3: Women in Turkish politics 279 (16) From emancipation to liberation: the changing role of women in Turkey’s public realm 281 (14) Yesim Arat PART 23 Policy-making, political economic interactions, patronage 295 (103) Politics, society and financial liberalization: Turkey in the 1990s 297 (28) Ümit Cizre-Sakallıoğlu Erinc Yeldan Double-faced state: political patronage and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey 325 (19) Metin Heper E. Fuat Keyman Domestic politics versus global dynamics: towards a political economy of the 2000 and 2001 financial crises in Turkey 344 (29) Ziya Öniş Political economy of agricultureal reforms in Turkey 373 (25) Mine Eder Index 398

Textbook providing a thorough assessment of the political, social and economic processes which led to the formation of a new Turkey; socio-economic change is emphasised throughout.

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.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In 1960s Turkey, the armed forces and the radical leftist movement provided two very dynamic, but very different, political forces. However, somewhat surprisingly, the majority of radical leftists believed in the revolutionary potential of the armed forces in overthrowing the current regime and replacing it with a quasi-socialist one. This book considers the changing perspectives of the radical leftist movement towards the political role of the military in Turkey. Using a textual analysis of different leftist groups, including the Communist Party of Turkey, Ozgur Mutlu Ulus describes the development of the leftist movement in Turkey after the 1960 coup and explains why most leftists chose to encourage a military revolution, which they hoped would bring about the triumph of socialism in Turkey.

Landau's book is important in several respects... it provides exhaustive information on almost every pan-Turk publication and all of its authors and publicists. Landau appears to have consulted every conceivable source, including archives and collections... In addition, the book is useful to students of pan-nationalism and nationalism, for Landau also expertly places all his information into a larger theoretical context. This contribution to the literature is invaluable. -- Journal of Developing Areas... a most worthwhile work, ... It... deserves to be in all library collections on the Middle East. -- Perspectives on Political ScienceLandau has provided an up-to-date compendium of facts concerning the history of these nationalist ideas and movements. Students of nationalism in general and the politics of post-Soviet Central Asia and the Turkish Republic in particular will remain greatly indebted to [Landau] for some considerable time. -- American Political Science ReviewAn examination of relations between Turks in Turkey and their kin abroad -- in Cyprus, the Balkans, and especially in the six ex-Soviet Muslim republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia. This book delineates the special relationship between the new republics and Turkey, which has altered the essence of Pan-Turkism from militant irredentism to practical solidarity in matters political, economic, and cultural.