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Item Open Access Environmental pressure groups in Turkey(Bilkent University, 1997) Çörtoğlu, Feza SencerThis research examines the role of Turkish environmental pressure groups in the development of environmentalism and their role in the development of civil society in Turkey by taking into consideration three main Turkish environmental groups- the Environment Foundation of Turkey, the Society for the Protection of Nature and the Turkish Association for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.Item Open Access The influence of the economic interest groups in Turkish foreign policy during the JDP government period (2002-2011) : the cases of TÜSİAD and MÜSİAD(Bilkent University, 2011) Yıldız, CerenThis thesis analyzes the influence of the economic interest groups in Turkish foreign policy during the two Justice and Development Party (JDP) governments with a special focus on the role of TÜSİAD and MÜSİAD. The foreign policy of the JDP government is analyzed by looking at foreign policy developments during the JDP governments and the changes and continuities in Turkish foreign policy. To evaluate TÜSİAD and MÜSİAD’s influence on the JDP’s foreign policy further general characteristics of TÜSİAD and MÜSİAD and their export orientations are discussed. Consequently, the relationship between the JDP government foreign policy preferences and TÜSİAD’s and MÜSİAD’s foreign policy preferences are analyzed in light of the neo-Gramscian approach. The argument here is that MÜSİAD with its ties with the JDP government based on identity and material interests is a new ‘hegemonic project’ and under the dominance of global neo-liberal capitalist order MÜSİAD and the JDP seems to form a new ‘historical bloc’ at domestic level.Item Open Access Reluctant capitalists : the rise of neo-Islamic bourgeoisie in Turkey(Bilkent University, 2013) Şişman, ÖzlemThe rise of the JDP to power in Turkey in 2002 marked a beginning of a new era in Turkey and Islamic world, in terms of enduring debate between Islam and Democracy and that of Islam and Capitalism. One of the significant outcomes of this politico-economic development was emergence of a neo-Islamic bourgeoisie in modern Turkey. The aim of my dissertation is to contextualize rise of this neo- Islamic bourgeoisie class against the backdrop of conflict and cooperation between Islam and Capitalism in general; and political, intellectual and economic transformations of Islamist actors over the last three decades in Turkey, in particular. As a case study, I will examine vision, mission and activities of a nongovernmental Islamic business organization, İGİAD i (Financial Business Ethics Foundation/İktisadi Girişim ve İş Ahlakı Derneği), which was an offshoot of MÜSİAD (The Independent Industrialists‘ and Businessmen‘s Association/ Müstakil İşadamları Derneği). The reason I chose to work on İGİAD is twofold: a) the organization has never been studied from and academic point of view; and b) it is an Islamic business organization which makes the most self-conscious effort to reconcile capitalist business principles and Islamic ethical values. Based on my research, I argue that neo-Islamic class found an ―opportunity space‖ in a Weberian sense, in the last three decades in the Turkish economypolitical context, and emerged as a result of an ongoing negotiation between selfperception of their Islamic identity and capitalism. Overcoming the challenges, and decreasing the ‗discursive tension‘ between Islam and capitalism, in this process, these Islamic actors defined and redefined Islam, secularism, capitalism, investment, banking, consumption, and luxury in such a way that both Islam and capitalism were considered flexible enough to accommodate each other. At the end of the process, they emerged as ―reluctant capitalists‖. Methodologically speaking, my dissertation will integrate my analysis of secondary and primary sources that I have been examining at Bilkent and Harvard libraries last three years; of Islamic media (newspapers, journals, TV channels) products; and more importantly in-depth interviews with members of neo-Islamic bourgeoisie class in Turkey, mostly with the members İGİAD.