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A few
days ago, Turkey went to the Polls. Throughout the centuries elites in the Ottoman
Empire, renamed Turkey, deployed Islam and its divine writings as the primary
source for the legitimization of the social relationships between the rulers
and the ruled, though there emerged some sub-cultures like Bektashism which answered to the worldly problems of the
peasant populations. We will thus start with the ideological consequences of
this, and the rise of nationalism (Atta Turk) as the successor of imperial
religious order based on orthodox Islam. Because today’s problems (example
today's election) in Turkey, such as secularism versus political Islam,
are inexorably linked to those centuries long contradictory developments
within the peoples’ common sense. Starting today hence, we present
our just completed investigation: The Secret Background From Ottoman
Ideology to Today’s Islamic Party in Turkey and Beyond. Evolving Turkey P.1: As
expected the Islamist-rooted AKP made a clear victory during the elections,
as is now official. From Ottoman Ideology to Today’s Islamic Party in
Turkey and Beyond. Evolving Turkey P.2:
From
Ottoman Ideology to Today’s Islamic Party in Turkey and Beyond. Evolving Turkey
P.3: |
Since
the developments we next will be covering in the case of Turkey didn’t happen
in a vacuum, it is important that we first present what could be said to be a
postscript to our earlier part 1, and 2 excursions into Globalization.
This time pointing to the development of modern economics. From Ottoman
Ideology to Today’s Islamic Party in Turkey and Beyond. Evolving Turkey P.4: After
delving into the global dynamics that paved the way for the emergence of
neo-liberalism transnationally, and how it aligned itself with the Islamic movement in the Middle East through the
coalescence of the interests of U.S. imperialism and Saudi Wahabism, our next
focus will be how in Turkey the Islamist movement continued to assert
its political power. From Ottoman Ideology to Today’s Islamic Party in Turkey
and Beyond. Evolving
Turkey P.5: The
Turkish parliament furthermore elected a former
Islamist as the
staunchly secularist republic's 11th president. Conclusion
and Bibliography. |
Oct. 3,
2007: Admitting it harmed Turkey's bid to join
the EU Mr Gul told the 47-nation Council of Europe in
Strasbourg that he expected the AK Party, would be willing to review the
current law for insulting Turkish identity. Nobel-laureate writer Orhan Pamuk
and slain journalist Hrant Dink are among the many
people tried under Article 301. The law has in particular been used to
prosecute writers and journalists who argued that Turkey was the scene of a genocide against Armenians in the early 20th Century. Although Mr.Gull officially rejects the view that the Armenians
deaths can be classed as genocide and were a political necessity.
Case
Study: Parallel to the above research we investigated the
impact of contested national identity on both Turkish and Japanese foreign
policies, and why. Continue...
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