The rise of political Islam in Turkey
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RAND,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Figures and Tables
- Summary
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Politics and Religion in Turkey
- Structure of the report
- The Islamic landscape in Turkey
- Religion, ethnicity and politics
- The management of Islam
- Sufi brotherhoods
- Religious movements
- Islamic foundations
- Islamic schools
- Shiites and Alevis
- Turkish attitudes toward religion
- The violent fringe
- Turks in Europe
- The rise of political Islam in Turkey
- The impact of the Kemalist revolution
- The advent of multi-party democracy
- The "Turkish-Islamic synthesis"
- The impact of the ZAL reforms
- The rise of the religious right
- Political Islam in power : the welfare interlude
- The impact of the February 28 process
- The AKP in power
- The reconfiguration of Turkish politics
- The AKP : a new synthesis or Islamism in disguise?
- "Green money"
- The headscarf controversy
- The Imam-Hatip schools controversy
- Non-Muslims minorities under AKP rule
- The AKP and the Kurds
- The AKP and the military
- AKP's foreign policy
- Relations with Europe
- Relations with the United States
- Relations with the Middle East
- Future prospects and implications
- Whither Turkey : alternative political futures
- Scenario 1 : the AKP pursues a moderate, EU-oriented path
- Scenario 2 : creeping Islamization
- Scenario 3 : military intervention
- Implications for U.S. policy.