This article aims to analyze the process of AKP’s democratic opening in an historical and comparative perspective with respect to various other...

This article focuses on the ongoing process of transition in Turkey from a “homogeneous national identity”, which produced a notion of “equality as...

This article agrees that there is a transformation in Turkish foreign policy. It suggests that the changes in foreign policy are not aimed to...

This article explores the cultural politics of European opposition to Turkish accession to the EU. It argues that the foundations of secularism—the...

It has become a conventional approach to look at the impact of the political institutions to understand immigrant organizing patterns in the...

Immigration of Turkish guest-workers to Western European countries in the 1960s and 1970s laid the ground for the emergence of various...

This article aims to explore multi-faceted interactions among three segments of the ‘Turkish-speaking’ immigrant community in London, composed of...

This article attempts to analyze various aspects of ethnic and religious identity configurations among the Turkish Sunni Muslims in Britain and to...

This text discusses the case of Talip, son of Turkish immigrants to Germany and a recent convert to Islam. Specifically, the text addresses Talip’s...

This article looks at the impact of Turkish voters in German politics since the 1980s with a special attention to the latest elections in September...

This article discusses a new social and political phenomenon in Europe, which has become evident along with the visibility of Islam in the European...

Turkey’s membership in the European Union (EU) is contingent on economic, political, and cultural factors. Rather than a geographic area with a...

The Kurdish question in Turkey has a long history which was viewed within the framework of nation building, integration and underdevelopment until...

The interest Turkey has generated in the Arab world over the last few years is caused by the convergence of changes in Turkey, the Middle East, and...

For centuries, the Arabs and Turks were subjects of the Ottoman Sultanate and were largely shaped by the dominant Ottoman culture and mode of...

Turkey successfully gained provisional membership of the United Nations Security Council by receiving support from 151 states in the UN General...

The arrival of the Obama administration has created opportunities for positive and enduring change in U.S. relations with the Muslim world....

Hamas Charter has sparked a lot of controversy, both inside and outside the organization. This paper offers a critical analysis of the original...

This article tests Mancur Olson’s theory of distributional coalitions against the case of the Turkish “deep state.” Olson’s theory holds that...

Conventional models developed through the conceptual lenses of modernization theory dating back to the 1960s, are no longer applicable to Turkish...

The recent emergence of Muslim democratic parties such as AKP in Turkey and PJD in Morocco draws attention to the perennial question on the...

Islam and democracy are said to be in a relationship fraught with problems as the former, allegedly, does not allow secular law to be put above...

While the question of the relationship between Islam and democracy continues to attract significant attention from scholars and policy-makers,...

This essay examines the validity of the argument that the alleged theological lack of state-religion separation in Islam is the reason for...