Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century (Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey)

Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century (Edinburgh Studies on Modern Turkey)

Ahmet Erdi Öztürk, Jeffrey Haynes (Foreword by)
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Publication Date: January 19th, 2021
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
9781474474689
Pages:
264
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Description

Turkey and its recent ethno-religious transformation have had a strong impact on the state identity and country's relation to the Balkan Peninsula. This book examines Turkey's ethno-religious activism and power-related political strategies in the Balkans between 2002 and 2020, the period under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), to determine the scopes of its activities in the region.

About the Author

Dr Ahmet Erdi Öztürk is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations and Politics at London Metropolitan University and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at Coventry University in the UK and GIGA in Germany. He is also an associate researcher (Chercheur Associé) at Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes and editor of International Journal of Religion. He was a Swedish Institute Pre and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), at Linköping University, Scholar in Residence at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is the author of more than 20 articles, numerous policy reports, opinion pieces and co-editor of four special issues and two books on religion and politics and Turkish politics. He is a regular contributor to media outlets such as Open Democracy, The Conversation, Huffington Post and France 24.

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