Islamic Political Identity in Turkey

by M. Hakan Yavuz

Book Overview

In November of 2002, the Justice and Development Party swept to victory in the Turkish parliamentary elections. Because of the party's Islamic roots, its electoral triumph has sparked a host of questions both in Turkey and in the West: Does the party harbor a secret Islamist agenda? Will the new government seek to overturn nearly a century of secularization stemming from Kemal Atat rk's early-twentieth-century reforms? Most fundamentally, is Islam...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195188233
• ISBN13: 9780195188233
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"