Secular and Islamic politics in Turkey : the making of the justice and development party / edited by Umit Cizre - New York : Routledge, 2008 - vi, 238 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 6 .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : the Justice and Development Party: making choices, revisions and reversals interactively / Umit Cizre -- The specific evolution of contemporary political Islam in Turkey and its difference / Menderes Cinar and Burhanettin Duran -- Problematizing the intellectual and political vestiges : from welfare to justice and development / -- Ahmet Yildiz -- The emergence of Turkey's contemporary Muslim democrats / Kenan Cayir -- The Justice and Development Party's new politics : steering toward conservative democracy, a revised Islamic agenda or management of new crises? / Burhanettin Duran -- The Justice and Development Party and the Kemalist establishment / Menderes Cinar -- The Justice and Development Party and the military : recreating the past after reforming it? / Umit Cizre -- The Justice and Development Party and the European Union : from Euroscepticism to Euro-enthusiasm and Euro-fatigue / Ali Resul Usul -- The social bases of the Justice and Development Party / Ibrahim Dalmis and Ertan Aydin

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AK Parti (Turkey)


Islam and politics--Turkey