Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey: The Making of the Justice and Development Party Book

Introduction: The Justice and Development Party: Making Choices, Revisions and Reversals Interactively Ümit Cizre Part 1: Historical Evolution and the Interactive Making of the Justice and Development Party 1. The Specific Evolution of Contemporary Political Islam in Turkey and Its ‘Difference’ Menderes Çinar and Burhanettin Duran 2. Problematizing the Intellectual and Political Vestiges: From ‘Welfare’ to ‘Justice and Development’ Ahmet Yildiz 3. The Emergence of Turkey’s Contemporary ‘Muslim Democrats’ Kenan Çayir 4. The Justice and Development Party’s ‘New Politics’: Steering Toward Conservative Democracy, a Revised Islamic Agenda or Management of New Crises? Burhanettin Duran Part 2: Secular Establishment and the Justice and Development Party 5. The Justice and Development Party and the Kemalist Establishment Menderes Çinar 6. The Justice and Development Party and the Military: Recreating the Past after Reforming It? Ümit Cizre Part 3: European Union Dimension 7. The Justice and Development Party and the European Union: from Euroscepticism to Euro-enthusiasm and Euro-fatigue Ali Resul Usul Part 4: Empirical Data and the Justice and Development Party 8. The Social Bases of the Justice and Development Party Ertan Aydin and Ibrahim Dalmis Conclusion Ümit Cizre