Türkiye'de din-devlet ilişkileri ve laiklik tartışmaları, Cumhuriyet'in kuruluşundan itibaren iç
içedir. Devletin dine, dinin toplumsal rolüne ve örgütlenmesine müdahale etme isteği, bu …

This article reviews recent government efforts to address the “Alevi issue” and identify their
successes and failures. It demonstrates that the “Alevi openings” constituted paradoxical …

The Justice and Development Party (JDP, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi) has launched a
rapprochement policy toward the Alevis. The JDP's Alevi Opening has presented a unique …

Turgut Özal played a leading role in Turkish politics first as prime minister (1983–89), then
as president (1989–93). At first sight, he comes across as a man of apparent paradoxes. He …

This article, which draws on the case of 10 young socialists from the urban margins of
Istanbul, who were arrested as the result of an anti-terror operation in 2007, provides an …

Focusing on the case of young socialist vigilantes who were arrested and imprisoned as
'terrorists' in 2007, this article illustrates how vigilantism in working‐class neighbourhoods of …

Since the mid-1920s, the Kemalist power elite has been trying to consolidate their nationalist
and secularist status quo by employing a sort of Gramscian consent fabrication. They have …

Over the last decade, the political significance of the Alevis, the largest sectarian Muslim
minority in Turkey, has notably changed. This article aims to evaluate the Alevi community's …

This paper analyses the construction of an Alevi political identity in terms of cultural, social
and religious values at a time when the role of religion is increasing in the political life of …

The aim of the current thesis was to investigate the relationship between Alevis and Sunnis
through the lenses of Social Identity Theory, Social Dominance Theory, and Contact …