A history of Turkey’s AKP-Gülen conflict

Taş, Hakkı

doi:10.1080/13629395.2017.1328766

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“…The recent position of Turkey, according to the overwhelming majority of these studies, can best be framed as authoritarianism. The ever increasing populism of the AKP government, the long gone EU reform process (Aydın-Düzgit 2016), the alliance with the Gülen movement (Taş 2018), and efforts to change the state identity and the exploitation of Islam (Kaya 2015) have frequently been addressed. This special issue aims at scrutinizing the role of religion in the AKP period through specific cases and in a variety of contexts.…”

Section: Contributions Of This Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Turkish secularism and Islam under the reign of Erdoğan

Öztürk

2019

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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This article introduces a collection of articles that explore the role of religion (Sunni Islam) in the transformation of Turkey under the reign of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP). This special issue argues that the Turkish understanding of secularism was also one of the building blocks or/and constitutive elements of Turkey's modernisation until the rise of the AKP. Currently, however, it seems that religion has become a new or re-born element of the new Turkey and has been transforming many areas such as: the media, the Kurdish issue, implementation of the rule of law, foreign policy and gender issues. This special issue aims to scrutinise the question: how does a religion-based transformation in Turkey influence the raison d'etat of the state? ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Contributions Of This Special Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Turkish secularism and Islam under the reign of Erdoğan

Öztürk

2019

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies

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“…Domestic enemies were identified to include secular CHP voters, the "interest rate lobby" (Daragahi 2018), the religious movement let by Fethullah Gülen (Taş 2018) and the Kurds who do not support the AKP (Martin 2018). All were tarred by the same brush, accused of being "terrorists" or "coup sympathisers/putschists."…”

Section: Turkeymentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving Beyond European and Latin American Typologies: The Peculiarities of AKP’s Populism in Turkey

Gürsoy

2019

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Despite the growing literature on Turkish populism, there is yet no consensus on how best to categorise the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi or AKP). This article argues that this lack of consensus is due to a selective focus on the attributes of AKP's populism. Indeed, when the party's features are examined holistically, it does not neatly conform to the dominant typologies of populism, which were conceived mostly for European and Latin American examples. For historical reasons, AKP's populist discourse defines "the people" versus "the elite" in civilisational terms and combines this with strategies of neo-liberalism, strong party organisation and grassroots mobilisation. This blend of populism distinguishes the AKP case from the exclusionary/inclusionary and classical/neo-liberal/radical typologies previously identified by the literature. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party in India and the Thai Rak Thai Party in Thailand have similar attributes to the AKP, drawing attention to the need to move beyond the existing ideological and strategic approaches to populism and towards a more comprehensive socio-cultural approach. The article contributes to the literature on populism by highlighting possible avenues for further research based on such a comprehensive understanding of populism based also on cases from Asia.

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“…The two worked in harmony throughout the 2008 Ergenekon and 2010 Sledgehammer Trials, as well as the 2010 Constitutional Referendum, which broke the secular hold on the military and judiciary, respectively. However, this collaborative relationship between Erdoğan and Gülen turned into a brutal fight once the secular establishment, their common enemy, was neutralized (Taş 2017). In December 2013, when the corruption scandals involving Erdoğan's entourage broke out, Erdoğan defined the probe as a 'judicial coup' launched by the Gülenist 'parallel state' , which led him to rotate or remove thousands of police officers, judges and prosecutors from their posts.…”

Section: The Coup Nightmentioning

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“…The government blamed the Gülenists for the abortive coup of 15 July. However, the official terrorist designation for the movement dates back to the National Security Council meeting on 26 May 2016 (Taş 2017). 2.…”

Section: Turkey's Post-truth Coupmentioning

confidence: 99%