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Klappentext: "Mit diesem Buch liefert Dr. Kaya eine profunde und differenzierte Analyse der langjährigen NATO-Mitgliedschaft der Türkei sowie deren enge Bindungen an die USA und deren Auswirkungen auf Politik, Wirtschaft, Militär und Gesellschaft vom Beginn des Bündnisses bis zur Gegenwart. Dr. Kaya bezieht sich detailliert auf unterschiedliche Quellen, die seine Thesen untermauern, wonach die neoliberale Politik der USA nicht nur deren globale Machtpolitik zementiert, sondern auch die türkische Gesellschaft in ein wirtschaftlich und sozial prekäres System gestoßen hat. Dabei dient die NATO als ihr Instrument und garantiert die Vormachtstellung der USA. Die Leser*innen werden ausführlich über die geopolitische Lage der Türkei und die Bürde, die dem Land mit der NATO-Mitgliedschaft und US-Anbindung auferlegt wurde, informiert. Die kritische Beleuchtung der Instrumentalisierung der Türkei als Vorposten des militärischen Bündnisses im Mittelmeerraum und im Nahen Osten dient der Wissenserweiterung und zeigt Aspekte auf, die das Buch zu einer hochaktuellen Lektüre machen."

This book analyses Muslim-origin immigrant communities in Europe, and the problematic nature of their labelling by both their home and host countries. The author challenges the ways in which both sending and receiving countries encapsulate these migrants within the religiously defined closed box of "Muslim" and/or "Islam". Transcending binary oppositions of East and West, European and Muslim, local and newcomer, Kaya presents the multiple identities of Muslim-origin immigrants by interrogating the third space paradigm. Turkish Origin Migrants and Their Descendants analyses the complexity of the hyphenated identities of the Turkish-origin community with their intricate religious, ethnic, cultural, ideological and personal elements. This insight into the life-worlds of transnational individuals and local communities will be of interest to students and scholars of the social sciences, migration studies, and political science, especially those concerned with Islamization of radicalism, populism, and Islamophobia in a European context

The Diyanet is the 'Presidency of Religious Affairs', the official face of Islam and highest religious authority in Turkey, and is a governmental department established in 1924 after the break-up of the Ottoman Empire. In this book, Emir Kaya offers an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of this vital institution. Focusing on the role of the Diyanet in society, Kaya explores the balance the institution has to strike between the Islamic traditions of the Turkish population and the officially secular creed of the Turkish state. By examining the various laws that either bolstered or hindered the Diyanet's budgets and activities, Kaya highlights the institutional mindsets of the Diyanet membership as well as evaluating its successes and failures as a governmental department that has to consistently operate within the context of the religiosity of Turkish society. By situating all of this within the context of the two competing but often complimentary concepts of religion and secularism, Kaya offers a book that is important for those researching the role of religion and the state in society in the Middle East and beyond