Rethinking the Justice and Development Party’s ‘Alevi openings’

The ‘Alevi openings’ launched in 2007 by the Justice and Development Party have been widely lauded as a historic and unprecedented step in the Turkish Republic. In contrast, this article places the ‘openings’ in a wider historical context, analyzing them in relation to processes of nation-building....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lord, C
Format: Journal article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2016