Publication

This report looks at the relationship between secularism and Islam in Turkey. It examines the factors that characterized Turkey’s path of secularization and the process of Islamization in state and society especially since the 1980s. The author analyzes the phenomenon of the "politicization of Islam" and explores the dynamic processes of transformation in the Turkish Islamist movement from the policies and activities of the Welfare Party (RP) to that of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).