Turkey's July 15th Coup: What Happened and Why (Utah Series in Middle East Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607816067 ISBN 13: 9781607816065

Verlag: UNIV OF UTAH PR, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Utah Series in Middle East Studies

On July 15, 2016, a faction of the Turkish military attempted to overthrow the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish government blamed the unsuccessful coup attempt on Gülenists, adherents of an Islamist movement led by Fethullah Gülen. They had helped elect Erdogan and his AK Party, with the goal of bringing an ostensibly “soft” version of Islam into the secular Turkish government. In alliance with the AK Party, Gülenists steadfastly increased their representation in various government institutions, including the military, the police, and the judiciary. This volume focuses on the historical and sociopolitical contexts of the Gülen Movement’s origins and political ascendancy along with its possible role in the failed coup.
 

Editors Yavuz and Balci are among the first international scholars to have studied the movement from its nascent stages in Turkey. The volume's contributors include scholars who have researched the movement in Turkey, Central Asia, and the Balkans. The result is a comprehensive, timely assessment of numerous dimensions of Gülenist activities, including its social and political networks and the institutions that supported the movement as it became a major economic and educational force in Turkey and elsewhere. This volume reflects exchanges among scholars who having studied the Gülenists, assembled to discuss how and why the movement became belligerent opponents of Erdogan’s government, and it addresses questions such as how this major, still continuing disruption in Turkey’s politics will affect not only the future of the movement but also that of Turkey's embattled democracy as well.

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M. Hakan Yavuz is professor of political science at the University of Utah. He has published widely on Islam, nationalism, the Kurdish question, and modern Turkish politics.

Bayram Balcı is a researcher at the Centre for Research and International Studies (CERI-Sciences Po) in Paris. From 2006 to 2010 he was the director of the French Institute of Central-Asian Studies (IFEAC) in Tashkent, and from 2012 to 2014 he was a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

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• Verlag: UNIV OF UTAH PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1607816067
• ISBN 13: 9781607816065
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360
• Herausgeber: Yavuz M. Hakan, Balci Bayram
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• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar