Kenan Evren's and Turgut Özal's conceptualizations of secularism : a comparative perspective
Author
Duran, Burhanettin
Advisor
İçduygu, Ahmet
Date
1994Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
Present study aims to analyze in a comparaiive perspective.
Kenan Evren's and Turgut Özal's conceptualizations of secularism.
beaı-ing in mind the nature of secularism and the role of religion in
the Turkish polity have changed significantly in the 1 980s and the
early 1990s. For Evren, secularism is not only a guarantee of the
religious freedam and conscience but also it protects Turkish
national unity. But Özal puts an emphasis on the freedam side of
secularism and on the protection of the rights of pious Muslims.
As a paraBel development to the saftening of the Kemalist
secularism in the !980s, Isiarn seems to have a function of civil
religion for both Evren and Özal but with the difference that while
the former emphasizes the moral side of Islam, the latter considers
Islam as a ci\ril societal mntter and tries to harmanize religious
values with democratic political Yalues. The study is also intended to
show the influence of Ziya Gökalp's system of thought to both
Evren's and Özal's conceptualization of secularism.