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AK Parti (Turkey); political parties; Islam and politics; Turkey

Introduction: the Justice and Development Party : making choices, revisions and reversals interactively / Ümit Cizre -- The specific evolution of contemporary political Islam in Turkey and its 'difference' / Menderes Çinar and Burhanettin Duran -- Problematizing the intellectual and political vestiges : from 'welfare' to 'justice and development' / Ahmet Yildiz -- The emergence of Turkey's contemporary 'Muslim democrats' / Kenan Çayir -- The Justice and Development Party's 'new politics' : steering toward conservative democracy, a revised Islamic agenda or management of new crises? / Burhanettin Duran -- The Justice and Development Party and the Kemalist establishment / Menderes Çinar -- The Justice and Development Party and the military : recreating the past after reforming it? / Ümit Cizre -- The Justice and Development Party and the European Union : from Euro-scepticism to Euro-enthusiasm and Euro-fatigue / Ali Resul Usul -- The social bases of the Justice and Development Party / İbrahim Dalmis and Ertan Aydin

"How safe is Turkey's liberal democracy? The rise to power in 2002 of the right-leaning Islamic Justice and Development Party ignited fears in the West that Turkey could no longer be relied upon to provide a buffer against the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East. Once hailed by the West as a model of secularism and moderation in the Muslim world, Turkey is now seen to be under the influence of the 'creeping Islamisation' of the JDP (or AKP as it is known in Turkey). Yet to what extent has this affected the lives of Turkish citizens? Evangelia Axiarlis here explores the contribution of the JDP to civil liberties and basic freedoms, long suppressed by secular and statist Kemalist ideology, and how this has remained unexamined despite more than a decade in government. In this--the first detailed study of the policies and ideology of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's government--the author examines the extent to which the JDP has worked to improve civil life in Turkey and critically addresses whether a government built on Islamic principles can champion political reform. Exploring how Islam and democracy are neither monoliths nor mutually exclusive, this is a timely contribution to the wider understanding of political Islam."--Publisher's website

New perspectives on ethnic relations, Islam and neoliberalism have emerged in Turkey since the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002. Placing the period within its historical and contemporary context, Tahir Abbas argues that what it is to be ethnically, religiously and culturally Turkish has been transformed. He explores how issues of political trust, social capital and intolerance towards minorities have characterised Turkey in the early years of the 21st-century. He shows how a radical neoliberal economic and conservative outlook has materialised, leading to a clash over the religious, political and cultural direction of Turkey. These conflicts are defining the future of the nation