Religious Minorities in Turkey: Alevi, Armenians, and Syriacs and the Struggle to Desecuritize Religious Freedom

by Annette Freyberg-Inan, Mehmet Bardakci, Christoph Giesel, et al.

This book considers the key issue of Turkey's treatment of minorities in relation to its complex paths of both European integration and domestic and international reorientation. The expectations of Turkey's EU and other international counterparts, as well as important domestic demands, have pushed Turkey to broaden the rights of religious and other minorities. More recently a turn towards autocratic government is rolling back some earlier achievements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113727025X
• ISBN13: 9781137270252
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.7"