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The New Islamists’ Understanding of Democracy in Turkey: The Examples of Ali Bulaç and Hayreddin Karaman
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The relationship between Islam and democracy is one of the most foundational discussions in politics today as mentioned in this paper, and Turkey is frequently seen as a positive example demonstrating the compatibility between Islam with democracy.Abstract:
Even though reaching a conclusive point seems impossible, debate on the relation between Islam and democracy is one of the most foundational discussions in politics today. Turkey is frequently seen as a positive example demonstrating the compatibility between Islam and democracy. Especially after the democratic reforms undertaken by the Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his effective governance. Erdogan’s party, the Justice and Development Party, seems to represent the Turkish Islamist intellectuals’ political response to international and internal pressure toward democracy. Although it is true that the majority of contemporary Turkish Islamists have accepted liberal democracy, their devotion to its values has only been in form of a very pragmatic and functional approach rather than a true commitment to democracy. This paper will briefly focus on the international and internal pressures on conservative intellectuals toward democracy. More extensively, Ali Bulac and Hayreddin Karama...read more
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The European Union and Grassroots Democratization in Turkey
TL;DR: This paper examined the role of Turkish civil society and public opinion in the reform process and found that support from below within Turkey will be essential for the consolidation for reform, arguing that although there is evidence of Euroskepticism within the public at large, there is broad support in the abstract for democratic principles and human rights and very visible actors within Turkey are working with the EU to further the reform project.