Nation-Building and Turkish Modernization: Islam, Islamism, and Nationalism in Turkey - Paperback

by Rasim Özgür Dönmez (Editor), Ali Yaman (Editor)

This book evaluates the Turkish nation-building process from the Ottoman Empire to today, considering the role of Islam in this process. It gives insight into what has changed and not changed in this process. The book explains to readers that the Islamisation of the country is not a coincidence. Rather, Islamism has been grown symbiotically with the secular Republican regime through the organizational power of Islamic sects and with the assistance of the West. How we live as a nation today is not a revolution of Islamists, as some scholars have remarked. Rather, it is a continuation of the Turkish nation-building process with further Islamisation.

Author Biography

Rasim Özgür Dönmez is professor of international relations at Abant Izzet Baysal University.