Islam and Turkish national identity: a reappraisal

In: Milletlerarası münasebetler türk yıllığı: ˜Theœ Turkish yearbook of international relations, Band 30, S. 1-22

Abstract

Argues that Islam has played a key role in its formation and has been gradually accommodated within the officially secular nationalism of the modern Turkish state founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1923 and that the current debate between Islamists and secularists concerns only Islam's importance, not its existence, in shaping national identity.