Shaping Turkey's futurediscourse : political Islam or civil Islam

• Main Author: Mohammed Nawab Mohamed Osman
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::International relations
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102172; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19898
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The current political impasse in Turkey has brought to light the contest between political Islam represented by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and civil Islam embodied by the Hizmet movement inspired by Turkish imam and philosopher Fethullah Gulen. The outcome will have significant i...