| ID | 023637 |
| Title Proper | Muslim Democrats in turkey? |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Jenkins, Gareth |
| Publication | 2003. |
| Description | p45-66 |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Turkey has been repeatedly cited as proof that Islam is compatible with democracy and that Muslim countries are not inevitably anti-Western. The landslide electoral victory in November 2002 of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) – which had emerged from an anti-Western, Islamist tradition – renewed a debate about both the future of secularism in Turkey and its potential as a model for the rest of the Muslim world. Yet the Turkish version of secularism is sui generis, inseparable from the authoritarian creed of Kemalism. So long as the Kemalist establishment continues to restrict the JDP's room for manoeuvre, it will be difficult to know whether the governing party's avowed enthusiasm for democracy and EU accession is genuine. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival Vol. 45, No 1; Spring 2003: p45-66 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 45 No 1 |
| Key Words | Islam-Turkey ; Turkey-Islam ; Political Islam ; Democracy-Turkey |