Torn country : Turkey between secularism and Islamism

Torn country : Turkey between secularism and Islamism / Zeyno Baran.

Zeyno Baran examines the intense struggle between Turkey's secularists and Islamists in their most recent battles over their country's destination. Looking into the fate of both Turkey's secularism and its democratic experiment, she shows that, for all the flaws of its political journ...

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Main Author: Baran, Zeyno
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, ©2010.
Series:Hoover Institution Press publication ; 590.
Subjects:
AK Parti (Turkey)
Since 1980
Islam and politics > Turkey.
Islam and secularism > Turkey.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Parties.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > Middle Eastern.
Islam and politics
Islam and secularism
Politics and government
Turkey > Politics and government > 1980-
Turkey
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Fouad Ajami
  • Introduction : Turkey's choice
  • Turkish identit--from the Ottomans to Ataturk
  • The rise of political Islam and the AKP
  • The AKP's political victories
  • Reshaping identity by restoring Islam
  • The AKP's foreign policy
  • Looking ahead : will Islamism replace Kemalism?

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