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An alternative reading of religion and authoritarianism: the new logic between religion and state in the AKP’s New Turkey

Ahmet Erdi Öztürk
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Since roughly 2011, the Turkish state and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been going through a process of mutual transformation. Some of the historical apprehensions, biases and frustrations exhibited by Turkey as a middle power have been absorbed by the relatively reformist AKP. Conversely, the AKP and its undisputed leader Erdogan have seen their socio-political fears, power based conflicts and ethno-religious desires become dominant in all areas, including religion. As a consequence of this bilateral transformation, Turkey has become both an inclusionary and a hegemonic-authoritarian state, and at the same time a weak one. Within this new identity and structure of the state, Sunni Islam has become one of the regime's key focal points, with a new logic. This article seeks to explain the transformation of the relations between the AKP's Turkish state, religion and religious groups, by scrutinising Karrie Koesel's logic of state-religion interaction in authoritarian regimes.

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hal-02269532 , version 1 (22-08-2019)

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Ahmet Erdi Öztürk. An alternative reading of religion and authoritarianism: the new logic between religion and state in the AKP’s New Turkey. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2019, Islam-Populism-Regime Change in Turkey: Making and re-Making the AKP, 19 (1, Special issue), pp.79-98. ⟨10.1080/14683857.2019.1576370⟩. ⟨hal-02269532⟩
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