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Political Islam in Turkey: From the Periphery to the State and Society Control

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Political Islam in a Time of Revolt

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The success of political Islam in Turkey in the last 14 years has reshaped social and political life and power relations in the institutions of the Turkish state. The electoral triumph of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in November 2002 began a process of change that has led to the emergence of a new kind of country, while the putsch of July 2016 represents a new phase. The political and social changes that Turkey has gone through during this period are, however, not without precedent in the difficult history of the Turkish Republic. This book aims to analyse the most important elements of political Islam in Turkey and its successful understanding of power consolidation.

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    We follow the proposal of the editors in this book (Izquierdo-Brichs and Etherington 2017).

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    For the genesis and development of nationalism according to Gülen, see (Kösebalaban 2003, 170–183). For his anti-communist positions, that can be traced back to his youth when he founded in the city of his birth the Turkish Association for the Fight against Communism, see p. 174.

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    Turkey. Freedom of the Press, 2015. https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/turkey. Last access, June 10, 2016.

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  1. Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

    Marién Durán

  2. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Francisco Veiga

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  1. Autonomous University of Barcelona , Barcelona, Spain

    Ferran Izquierdo Brichs

  2. Autonomous University of Barcelona , Barcelona, Spain

    John Etherington

  3. Autonomous University of Barcelona , Barcelona, Spain

    Laura Feliu

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Durán, M., Veiga, F. (2017). Political Islam in Turkey: From the Periphery to the State and Society Control. In: Izquierdo Brichs, F., Etherington, J., Feliu, L. (eds) Political Islam in a Time of Revolt. Islam and Nationalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52833-5_2

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