Religion, Politics and Society in Modern Turkey

This book is a critical reading of Turkey’s entanglement and struggle with modernity, Islam, diversity, democracy and human rights/liberties slightly less than the last two centuries. Its major argument is that the relationship between religion and state forms an important dimension not only of official state ideology, but also in interrelations between different groups in society and in those groups’ relations with the state. The book provides an overarching view of modern Turkey’s religion, po