In Between Democracy and Secularism: The Case of Turkish Civil Society

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dc.citation.epage147en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage129en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber22en_US
dc.contributor.authorCevik, S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorTas H.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T09:35:38Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T09:35:38Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractSince 2011, the Arab uprisings, signaling a new wave of political mobilization, have restored belief in the potential for civil society to make democratic openings. Nevertheless, the academic literature up to the present has attributed the enduring authoritarianism in the Middle East region to the weakness or dominantly Islamist nature of civil society and promoted the development of secular platforms. This article argues that the discussion about civil society is misplaced, and the democratic potential of civil society is not related to its being Islamic or secular, but rather to its attachment to the state. For this purpose, it examines the emergence of a secularist civil societal current in Turkey with special focus on one of its major manifestations, the Republic Rallies in 2007. © 2013 Copyright Editors of Middle East Critique.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/19436149.2013.783534en_US
dc.identifier.issn19436149
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/20809
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2013.783534en_US
dc.source.titleMiddle East Critiqueen_US
dc.subjectAKPen_US
dc.subjectanti-Westernismen_US
dc.subjectcivil societyen_US
dc.subjectdemocratizationen_US
dc.subjectEU-accessionen_US
dc.subjectKemalismen_US
dc.subjectRepublic Rallies secularismen_US
dc.subjectstate ideologyen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectTurkish nationalismen_US
dc.titleIn Between Democracy and Secularism: The Case of Turkish Civil Societyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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