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The Great Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey: The Case of Justice and Development Party and Erdogan
European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
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The Great Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey: The Case of Justice and Development Party and Erdogan
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Bilal Sambur
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Association for Liberal Thinking Center for the Study of Religion and Liberty
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bsambur@yahoo.co.uk
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| Description |
The relation between Islam and politics has been debated in many perspectives. Many people argue that Islam has natural political tendency and therefore, deserves to be called as political religion. The term Islamism has been designated in order to express Islam as political and ideological religion. Taliban, al-Qaida and Iranian regimes have been presented as the best typical cases for Islamism. In fact, Islamism is not a monolitic phenomenon, which includes diversity within itself. In this regard, the case of AKP in the Turkey is unique experience, which should be considered a new chapter in the history of Islamism. Although AKP has the support of religious people from society, it achieves to change its understanding of religion and politics. AKP presents itself not as a representative of Islam, but as conservative democrats, which means secular tones determines AKP’political framework, not religious ones. Today, AKP as a conservative democrat party, defends change, reform and transformation in favour of democracy, human rights and rule of law against Kemalist state elites. In this article, we try to present AKP as a special case of political Islam and argues that AKP is not an Islamist party, but it becomes a vehicle for change and transformation in Turkey.
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Islamism; Secularism; West; EU; Democracy; Political Islam.
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Z00, Z12, Z18.
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European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
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2009
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2
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2
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117-127
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http://www.ejeps.com/index.php/ejeps/article/download/25/25
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application/pdf
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Fatih University
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2016-01-31
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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http://www.ejeps.com/index.php/ejeps/article/view/25
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1307-6035
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1307-6000
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eng
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http://www.ejeps.com/index.php/ejeps/article/view/25/25
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Copyright (c) 2016 European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
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