Remaking Turkey: Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and Democracies

In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Turkey's ability to create a secular, constitutional democracy within a predominantly Muslim population. Remaking Turkey provides a comprehensive and detailed account of how Turkey has achieved the possibility of modernity and democracy in a Muslim social setting, as well as the important problems and challenges confronting this achievement. Turkey has demonstrated that, as an alternative modernity and a significant historical experience of the coexistence between Islam and democratic modernity in a secular political structure, it could make an important contribution to the most needed democratic global governance for the creation of a secure, just, and peaceful world. Remaking Turkey starts its investigation with an analysis of the Ottoman legacy, then proceeds by focusing on identity-based conflicts and civil, economic, and global processes, each of which have brought about significant challenges to modernity and democracy in Turkey. It concludes with an account of the recent changes and transformations that have given rise to the process of "remaking Turkey." In this way, editor E. Fuat Keyman presents a political theory-based approach to Turkish modernity and its recent changing formation, creating an original study of contemporary Turkey.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
October 2007
Editor: E. Fuat Keyman

Table of Contents

Foreword Fred Dallmayr xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Modernity and Democracy in Turkey E. Fuat Keyman xv
Ottoman Presence
Ottoman Awqaf, Turkish Modernization, and Citizenship Engin F. Isin 3
Reflections of European Self-images in Ottoman Mirrors Ash Cirakman 17
Problematizing Turkish Modernity
Laiklik and Turkey's "Cultural" Modernity: Releasing Turkey into Conceptual Space Occupied by "Europe" Andrew Davison 35
From Culture of Politics to Politics of Culture: Reflections on Turkish Modernity Hasan Bulent Kahraman 47
The Public Sphere and the Question of Identity in Turkey Feyzi Baban 75
The Question of Recognition
Defensive and Liberal Nationalisms: The Kurdish Question and Modernization/Democratization Murat Somer 103
A Legitimate Restriction of Freedom? The Headscarf Issue in Turkey Murat Borovali Omer Turan 137
Globalization, Modernization, and Democratization in Turkey: The Fethullah Gulen Movement Berrin Koyuncu Lorasdagi 153
The Anatomy of Civil Society in Turkey: Toward a Transformation Ahmet Icduygu 179
Amongst Other Nations
Reconceptualizing Center Politics in Post-1980 Turkey:Transformation or Continiuty? Aylin Ozman Simten Cosar 201
Turkey, September 11, and Greater Middle East Bulent Aras 227
Turkey and European Integration: Toward Fairness and Reciprocity Senem Aydin Duzgit E. Fuat Keyman 245
Figures and Tables 259
About the Contributors 263

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