Construction of New Turkey

This work analyses the transformation of the Turkish society through a constructivist perspective in the context of a «transformational shift» from the "traditional" experienced throughout the JDP tenure and examine the entrenched «clash of identities» between the Islamists and the secularists in Turkish politics.

Justice and Development Party (JDP), as the sole incumbent force for the last decade and a half, has proven to be an influential political actor with its power and capability to shape-shift the domestic and foreign policy of the Republic of Turkey. Within this context, this work analyses the transformation of the Turkish society through a constructivist perspective in the context of a «transformational shift» from the «traditional» experienced throughout the JDP tenure. JDP's «new» policy orientation is scrutinized through a constructivist lens to examine the entrenched «clash of identities» between the Islamists and the secularists in Turkish politics.

Autorentext

Orhun Cem Karsavuran is a lecturer in International Relations and Political Science at the Hasan Kalyoncu University (Turkey). He holds a degree from the University of London, MA from the University of Kent and PHD from the Yeditepe University ( stanbul). His interests include Int Rel theory, foreign policy, populism, turkish politics, political theory and modernisation-democratisation process.

Inhalt

JDP Constructivism Transformational shift Traditional New foreign policy Domestic Convergent Instrumentalism and expediency Value Clash of identities, Secularists Islamists 1. Erdoan's New Turkey Identity Matrix Transformation A New Islamist State Emergence of Erdoanism Demise of Kemalism