The Mosque as a Divisive Symbol in the Turkish Political Landscape

Şimşek, Sefa; Polvan, Zerrin; Yeşilşerit, Tayfun

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“…In their point of view, Istanbul is a lost city destroyed by the modernization and westernization attempts of the secular state. For almost half a century, this group has carried the desire of building a mosque in the middle of Taksim square, but they were averted by the government or secular groups each time they attempted to build a mosque (Büyüksaraç, 2005;Şimşek, Polvan, & Yeşilşerit, 2006). This on-going controversy came to an end by the decision of administrative court in 2015, which opens the way for construction of a mosque in Taksim Square.…”

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The Scale of Public Space: Taksim Square in Istanbul

Sadri¹

2017

JCUA

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This article aims at following the traces of the transformation of public sphere in Turkey through its manifestations on urban public spaces with the case study of Taksim Square. In this attempt, the article illustrates how Taksim square, as a public space, has been shaped by struggles between different ideologies, discourses, political decisions and daily activities taking place at personal, interpersonal, local, national, supranational and global scales. Through this way this article also aims at understanding how these contestations at different scales are affecting people, individually and collectively, from daily life practices to political integration. The article also discusses that our daily life practices and preferences are political decisions and our participation in public sphere occurs through those daily actions of the personal spheres. Therefore, the article suggests that a paradigm shift is needed in the design and production of the built environments that will facilitate the coexistence of multiple counter publics. Copyright © 2017 Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs.

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Section: Eternal Intentness For Building a Mosque In Taksimmentioning

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The Scale of Public Space: Taksim Square in Istanbul

Sadri¹

2017

JCUA

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Turkey and EUrope: Identity and Other Crises

Wood

2013

Turkish Studies

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Development elasticity of religious assets: a Turkish experience

Akdede

2014

Int J of Manpower

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Purpose -The aim of this paper is to investigate the development elasticities of religious assets namely, the relationship between the stock of religious assets (religious buildings like mosques, mescits, turbehs, etc.) and economic development. Design/methodology/approach -Development elasticities of religious assets with respect to development is empirically investigated for a cross-section of all Turkish cities with municipal authorities. Two different regression analyses use religious building in total number of building and percentage share of religiously conservatives parties vote as the dependent variable. Independent variables include various development measures. Findings -It is found that the stock of religious assets is negatively related to the development. Also, it is found that economic development and the stock of religious assets have a non-linear relationship. Religious assets increase with industrialization first, however, as the industrialization increases more, they decrease. Coastal towns have smaller religious assets. Mosques/masjits and schools are complements rather than substitutes as they statistically significantly affect each other positively. For robustness check, a different measure of religiosity is used in empirical research. Vote shares of religiously conservative parties are smaller in developed regions of the country. In other words, religiously conservative parties attracted the poor or less developed parts of the country. Practical implications -Economic development and religious assets are related to each other in a developing country case study. Increased economic development can cause religious assets to decline in this particular case study. Originality/value -This paper uses a novel data set to study the relationship between development and religion in a developing country.

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The Mosque as a Divisive Symbol in the Turkish Political Landscape

Cited by 3 publications

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The Scale of Public Space: Taksim Square in Istanbul

The Scale of Public Space: Taksim Square in Istanbul

Turkey and EUrope: Identity and Other Crises

Development elasticity of religious assets: a Turkish experience

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