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Under Ismet Inönü, who served as president from 1938 to 1950, the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People’s Party or CHP) single-party regime initially attempted to broaden and intensify the inculcation of the basic principles of Mustafa Kemal’s interpretation of secular nationalism.
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Can Dündar, Köy Enstitütleri (Ankara: Imge Kitabevi, 2000), 22–23.
There were even instances of Nazi officers being allowed to give propaganda lectures in Turkish schools. Interview with Ishak Alaton in Ridvan Akar, Askale Yolculari: Varlik Vergisi ve Çalisma Kamplari (Istanbul: Mephisto, 2006), 243.
Corinna Görgü Guttstadt, “Depriving non-Muslims of citizenship as part of the Turki-fication policy in the early years of the Turkish Republic: The case of Turkish Jews and its consequences during the Holocaust,” in Turkey Beyond Nationalism, ed. Hans-Lukas Kieser (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006), 52–53.
Author’s translation. Ayhan Ahtar, Varlik Vergisi ve Türklestirme Politiklari (Istanbul: Iletisim, 2000), 148.
In his groundbreaking study of Turkish rural life in 1949–52, Paul Stirling noted that most villagers had little use for literacy as they had no access to books or newspapers. Paul Stirling, Turkish Village (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1965), 278.
Tarik Zafer Tunaya, Islamcilik Cereyani (Istanbul: Baha Matbaasi, 1962), 190–92.
Mustafa Aydin, “Süleymancilar,” in Islamcilik, ed. Yasin Aktay (Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 2004), 311.
All figures taken from Ahmet N. Yücekök, Türkiye Örgütlenmis Dinin Sosyo-Ekonomik Tabani (Ankara: Sevinç Matbaasi, 1971), 133.
Said Nursi, Risale-i Nur No. 126, quoted in Serif Mardin, Religion and Social Change in Modern Turkey: the Case of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), 95.
M. Hakan Yavuz, Islamic Political Identity in Turkey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 161.
For example, he insisted that women should wear headscarves to discourage immorality and reveal their “inner moral beauty.” Camilla T. Nereid, In the Light of Said Nursi (Bergen: University of Bergen, 1997), 39.
Author’s translation. Faruk Güventürk and Fuad Kadioglu, Din Isiginda Yobazlik ve Atatürkcülük (Ankara: Ulusal Basimevi, 1967), 101.
Mustafa Bayrak, Türk Siyasi Tarihinde Demokrat Parti (1946–1960) (Ankara: Phoenix Yayinevi, 2004), 496–7.
Dilek Güven, 6–7 Eylül Olaylari (Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 2005), 76
William Hale, Turkish Politics and the Military (London: Routledge, 1994), 123.
Vatan , 11 November 1960, translation by Walter F. Weiker, The Turkish Revolution 1960–1961 (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1963), 133.
M. Çagatay Okutan, Bozkurt’tan Kur’an’a: Milli Türk Talebe Birligi: 1916–1980 (Istanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayinlari, 2004), 190.
Author’s translation, Alparslan Türkes, Milli Doktrin: Dokuz Isik (Istanbul: Kamer Yayinlari, 1997), 124. The Hira Mountain was where Mohammed is believed to have received the first revelation of the Qur’an. The Celestial Mountains are in the Tien Shan range in Central Asia.
Rusen Çakir, Alet ve Slogan (Istanbul: Metis Yayinlari, 2002), 19–20.
Birol Yesiada, The Virtue Party, in Political Parties in Turkey, ed. Barry Rubin and Metin Heper (London: Frank Cass, 2002), 64–65.
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Faik Bulut and Mehmet Faraç, Kod Adi: Hizbullah (Istanbul: Ozan Yayincilik, 1999), 50.
Akinci magazine No 5, quoted in Soner Yalçin, Hangi Erbakan (Ankara: Basak Yayinlari, 1994), 151.
The figure of nearly 600 branches is taken from a report entitled “Anarchy and Terror,” published by the Turkish General Staff in 1981 and reproduced in Faik Bulut, Ordu ve Din (Istanbul: Tumzamanlar Yayincilik, 1995), 171–179. The paramilitary activities of Ak-Der are discussed in Chapter 6.
Author’s translation. Soner Yalçin, Hangi Erbakan (Ankara: Basak Yayinlari, 1994), 146–7.
On 13 March 1956, three female deputies unsuccessfully tried to persuade parliament to debate a motion calling for the chador to be outlawed. Murat Aksoy, Basörtü-Türban: Batilasma-Modernlesme, Laiklik ve Örtünme (Istanbul: Kitapyayinevi, 2005), 138.
The full text of the ruling is given in Yuna Reyna and Ester Moreno Zonana, Son Yasal Düzenlemelere Göre (Istanbul: Gözlem, 2003), 554–7.
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Jenkins, G. (2008). The Reemergence of Islam. In: Political Islam in Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230612457_5
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