Open AccessReview of Tahir Abbas, Contemporary Turkey in Conflict: Ethnicity, Islam and Politics
Author(s) -
Nikos Christofis
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
new middle eastern studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2051-0861
DOI - 10.29311/nmes.v10i1.3763
Subject(s) - islam , politics , authoritarianism , turkish , ethnic group , political science , power (physics) , democracy , political economy , economic justice , law , sociology , history , linguistics , philosophy , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
Since the rise of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power in 2002, the country has been at the forefront of events in the region and beyond, even more so in the wake of the 15 July 2016 failed coup attempt. The party’s initial pro-EU, pro-democratic posture has given way to an illiberal authoritarianism since 2010, a process that has yet to reach its denouement. Tahir Abbas’ worthy ambition in Contemporary Turkey in Conflict: Ethnicity, Islam and Politics is to chart the path of sociopolitical transformation Turkey has undergone over the last decade or so, by surveying some of the key ideas and actors shaping contemporary Turkish politics...