Political Islam and the secular state in Turkey : democracy, reform and the Justice and Development Party / Evangelia Axiarlis.
How safe is Turkey's liberal democracy? The rise to power in 2002 of the right-leaning Islamic Justice and Development Party ignited fears in the West that Turkey could no longer be relied upon to provide a buffer against the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East. But the contribu...
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2014.
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| Series: | Library of modern Turkey ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A general critique of Turkish secularism
- The challenge of Kemalism
- The AKP's conservative democracy
- The AKP's European Union membership bid
- The AKP and the Turkish military
- A slowdown of reforms
- Conclusion.