 Turkey. The (Gülen) Cemaat and the State: An Unfinished ConquestBirol Başkan ()
A chapter in Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century, 2022, pp 885-897 from Springer Abstract: Abstract If revolutions are large-scale sudden changes in the composition of political elites as a result of spontaneous or organized mass mobilization, then modern Turkey has undergone none. Başkan points out that Turkey has somehow escaped a fate that befell such countries in its neighborhood as Ukraine, Iran, or Egypt. Turkey has managed to contain all radicalisms, whether of the Leftist or the religious kind and even transformed some, if not all, agents of radicalisms into the servants of the dominant political and economic system. The author shows that Turkey has nurtured, however, a number of groups or movements that have pursued a revolutionary agenda. One of them, a religious kind, has pursued an unusual strategy. Generally referred to as the Gülen movement, this religious group, or simply the Cemaat, has pursued an agenda that is revolutionary because it has aimed at an almost total transformation of the state and the society. The group’s strategy is unusual, however, in that it necessitated extreme temporal patience, or years of hard work. Date: 2022 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-030-86468-2_34 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86468-2_34 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Societies and Political Orders in Transition from Springer |
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