Tonge is convincing in his conclusion that the religious orders are a permanent feature of Turkish politics and public life.

Events in Turkey show how leaders can weaken secularism, concentrate power and criminalise the opposition within a political ...

But the Islamists won the last round in 2012 when a local court accepted the claim by the General Directorate of the Pious Foundations, the government body responsible for Turkey’s historic mosques, ...

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(MENAFN- The Conversation) The arrest of Istanbul's mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on 19 March has put a spotlight on the state of democracy in Turkey. It marks a possible turning point in the gradual ...