Civilizational Populism in Domestic and Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey by Ihsan Yilmaz, Nicholas Morieson

“…The article finds that the AKP has increasingly, and especially since the 2013 Gezi Park protests and the mysterious coup attempt in 2016, construed opposition between the Turkish ‘self’ and the ‘other’ not in primarily nationalist terms, but in religious and civilizational terms, and as a conflict between the Ottoman-Islamic ‘self’ and ‘Western’ other. …”
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