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Öğe Dagin Ardina Bakmak (Looking Beyond the Mountain)(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012) Donmez, Rasim OzgurÖğe The Justice and Development Party Between Islam and Modernity(Wiley, 2010) Donmez, Rasim OzgurThis study evaluates the political identity of the AKP and its ideological mindset. The first section elaborates on the AKP's definition of its 'conservative democracy' ideology, which can be summarised as reconciling modernity with societal values. To understand the party's identity the second section analyses the extent to which this ideology is practiced, by evaluating the party's policies in some political and sociological spheres, including its approach to democracy, secularism and co-operation with international players.Öğe Nationalism in Turkey: Political Violence and Identity(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007) Donmez, Rasim OzgurThis article explores the relationship between Kurdish nationalist and official Turkish nationalist identities and considers the effects of political violence. In this context, the study argues that the relationship between Kurdish nationalism and its official Turkish counterpart is problematic in nature and that these ideologies have tried to exist by referring to their opposite number as the other and engaging in political violence. In the 21st century, this clash has spread to the grassroots level of both circles, leading to tension between Kurds and Turks. The study is restricted to official Turkish nationalism and does not evaluate (Turkish) ultra-right nationalism. The paper begins by evaluating the psychological, sociological and political dynamics of the situation. It then examines the concept of political violence in relation to ethnic and national social identities. The second section sheds light on the relationship between official Turkish nationalism and Kurdish nationalism by tracing origins to the Ottoman Empire in order better to understand the role of violence in the formation of both Kurdish and Turkish nationalist identities. These aspects provide insight into why, in the 1980s, Kurdish nationalism evolved into ethnic terrorism. The final section seeks to discover why the Kurdish issue has been transformed into an ethnic backlash for both Kurds and Turks, and considers the relevance to the case of the European Union integration process and the US-led invasion of Iraq.Öğe A Necessary Engagement: Reinventing America's Relations with the Muslim World(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2009) Donmez, Rasim OzgurÖğe Vigilantism in Turkey: Totalitarian Movements and Uncivil Society in a Post-9/11 Democracy(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008) Donmez, Rasim OzgurTurkey has witnessed a mushrooming of ultranationalist vigilante organisations in the public sphere in the early twenty-first century, which promotes a view of the relation of Islam to the state and ethnic nation distinct from that of Islamicist groups. Such organisations can be seen as totalitarian movements whose tactics of terrorising society in order to take over the state are reminiscent of the paramilitarism of the Weimer Republic. The aim of this study is to understand why and how these ultranationalist groups have emerged. It analyses the discourses and actions of the principal groups, and argues that the U.S. military intervention in Iraq, coinciding with the accession process to the EU and the election victory of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has undermined the hegemony of the state elite and nationalist circles in the political and economic spheres. The increased visibility of Kurdish nationalists in the public sphere, the spate of terrorist attacks by the Kurdish separatist PKK, and the AKP's strict neo-liberal policies, profoundly unacceptable to the state elite and nationalist circles, have created an ideal habitat for the emergence of such vigilante organisations, which have a strong tradition in the history of modern Turkey.
