Bekim Agai

Articles de cet auteur (2)

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  Islam and Kemalism in Turkey (2)

  8 February 2007

  Source : Qantara.de
  How do Islamists and Kemalists in Turkey today deal with the laicistic inheritance of the state’s founder Kemal Ataturk? And what are the ideal forms of state and society which lie behind their positions? An analysis by Bekim Agai.
  First part of this article
  New Islamic politics ? The AKP
  The AKP won a landslide victory in the general election on 3rd November, 2002, and the fact that smaller parties failed to get into parliament because of the rule that a party must (...)

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  Islam and Kemalism in Turkey (1)

  6 February 2007

  Source : Qantara.de
  How do Islamists and Kemalists in Turkey today deal with the laicistic inheritance of the state’s founder Kemal Ataturk? And what are the ideal forms of state and society which lie behind their positions? An analysis by Bekim Agai.
  On 29th October, 1923, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed in Ankara. Its first president was Mustafa Kemal, later named Atatürk. The old caliphate gave way to a laicistic nation state, with new state structures and a new legal system. For (...)