![]() This monograph describes the politico-religious landscape in Turkey and the relationship between the state and religion, and it evaluates how the balance between secular and religious forces - and between the Kemalist elites and new emerging social groups - has changed over the past decade. However, having a ruling party with Islamic roots - the Justice and Development Party (AKP) - within a framework of strict secularism has generated controversy over the boundaries between secularity and religion in the public sphere. It also provides an example of the coexistence of Islam with secular democracy, globalization, and modernity. and Western security interests in a critical area of the world. ally, and the host of Incirlik Air Base (a key hub for logistical support missions in Afghanistan and Iraq), Turkey is pivotal to U.S. As a Muslim-majority country that is also a secular democratic state, a member of NATO, a candidate for membership in the European Union, a long-standing U.S.
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