By Angel Rabasa
ISBN-10: 0833044575
ISBN-13: 9780833044570
Turkey, a Muslim-majority nation, is pivotal to Western protection pursuits within the center East. Its ruling social gathering, the AKP, has Islamic roots yet operates inside a framework of strict secular democracy, which has generated controversy over the bounds among secularism and faith. This monograph describes the politico-religious panorama in Turkey and evaluates how the stability among secular and spiritual forces has replaced over the last decade.
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The military turned power back over to the politicians in 1961 and returned to the barracks—but only after instituting a number of reforms that strengthened its political role.
0 SOURCE: Ali Çarkogˇ lu and Binnaz Toprak, Degˇis¸en Türkiye ’de Din, Toplum ve Siyaset, Istanbul: TESEV, 2006. 42 Interview with Can Paker, Istanbul, June 2007. 24 The Rise of Political Islam in Turkey The survey confirms the widespread impression that Turks are becoming more religious, but it also shows that the vast majority of Turks oppose a state based on religion: 76 percent of the respondents opposed the implementation of shari’a, while only 9 percent favored it. In 1995, 27 percent favored it.
After the February 21 Interview 22 More 23 See with Cemal Uşak, Vice President, GYV, Istanbul, June 2005. than 200 businessmen in Kazakhstan alone, according to Uşak. org. 24 Interview with Cemal Uşak, Istanbul, June 2005. 25 Interview with a well-informed Turkish journalist, Ankara, June 2007. 26 Gülen himself moved to the United States in 1999 after he was indicted for allegedly plotting to subvert Turkey’s secular state. 27 Gülen’s critics point to videotapes of his speeches that have surfaced as evidence of an intention to overthrow Turkey’s secular order.
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