Remaking Turkey

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 as a significant historical experience of the co-existence 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 focuses on identity-based conflicts and civil, economic, and global processes, all of which have brought about significant challenges to modernity and democracy in Turkey. The book 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.

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 possiblity of modernity and democracy in a Muslim social setting, as well as the important problems and challenges confronting this achievement.

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction: Modernity and Democracy in Turkey Chapter 3 Chapter I. Ottoman Presence Chapter 4 Chapter 1. OttomanAwqaf, Turkish Modernization, and Citizenship Chapter 5 Chapter 2. Reflections of European Self-Images in Ottoman Mirrors Chapter 6 Chapter II. Problematizing Turkish Modernity Chapter 7 Chapter 3.Laiklik and Turkey's Cultural Modernity: Releasing Turkey into conceptual space occupied by Europe Chapter 8 Chapter 4. From Culture of Politics to Politics of Culture: Reflections on Turkish modernity Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Public Sphere and the Question of Identity in Turkey Chapter 10 Chapter III. The Question of Recognition Chapter 11 Chapter 6. Defensive and Liberal Nationalisms: The Kurdish Question and Modernization/Democratization Chapter 12 Chapter 7. A Legitimate Restriction of Freedom? The Headscarf Issue in Turkey Chapter 13 Chapter 8. Globalization, Modernization and Democratization in Turkey: The Fethullah Gülen Movement Chapter 14 Chapter 9. The Anatomy of Civil Society in Turkey: Towards a Transformation Chapter 15 Chapter IV. Amongst Other Nations Chapter 16 Chapter 10. Reconceptualizing Center Politics in Post-1980 Turkey: Transformation or Continuity? Chapter 17 Chapter 11. Turkey, September/11 and Greater Middle East Chapter 18 Chapter 12. Turkey and European Integration: Toward fairness and reciprocity