Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the
Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in
influence and has effectively reshaped party competition in Turkey.
Policy mandates and electoral bases of the rising extreme right
rely on potentially explosive social cleavages in the country. One
such confrontation is between the secularist and pro-Islamist
forces, which has always been one of the centrepieces of modern
Turkish politics.
The rise of pro-Islamist electoral forces from a marginal to an
undeniably imposing position in Turkish electoral politics has led
many to worry that a deep-rooted schism has come to the forefront
of Turkish politics. The frontline of this secularist vs
pro-Islamist confrontation is quite widespread ranging from a
debate around the ban of turban and headscarves in universities to
religious education in the country, from Islamic principles in the
economy to Turkish foreign policy towards the Middle Eastern
countries.
This volume was previously published as a special issue of the
journal Turkish Studies.
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