Populist radical right beyond Europe: The case of Islamic nativism in Turkey

Name: Populist radical right beyond Europe: The case of Islamic nativism in Turkey
Author: Paker, Evren Balta

İsim	Populist radical right beyond Europe: The case of Islamic nativism in Turkey
Yazar	Paker, Evren Balta
Basım Tarihi:	2023-06-16
Basım Yeri	- John Benjamins Publishing Company
Konu	Desecularisation, Nationalism, Nativism, Populism, Turkish politics
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	1569-2159
Kayıt Numarası	674cf079-a8b7-4d93-9ed1-11199a1bba80
Lokasyon	International Relations
Tarih	2023-06-16
Örnek Metin	Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) is one of the longest ruling among contemporary populist radical right parties (PRR). For nearly two decades, the AKP has shown tremendous success in achieving electoral dominance and political control. This article argues that AKP’s success lies in its ability to reconfigure the issue salience in Turkish politics by bringing the secular-conservative cleavage into the center of political competition. However, as this article shows, while the government’s framing of conservative/religious values was initially populist, as the Party consolidated its power, populism became secondary to nativism. This nativist turn is characterized by an emphasis on the foreignness of “the elites” and is shaped by secularization of the public sphere and antiwesternism. Overall, AKP has not presented a fundamental opposition to the “establishment” but brought together many components of Turkey’s institutional and cultural structure and radicalized patterns already present in earlier eras.
DOI	10.1075/jlp.22130.bal
Cilt	22

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Populist radical right beyond Europe: The case of Islamic nativism in Turkey

Yazar Paker, Evren Balta

Basım Tarihi 2023-06-16

Basım Yeri - John Benjamins Publishing Company

Konu Desecularisation, Nationalism, Nativism, Populism, Turkish politics

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 1569-2159

Kayıt Numarası 674cf079-a8b7-4d93-9ed1-11199a1bba80

Lokasyon International Relations

Tarih 2023-06-16

Örnek Metin Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) is one of the longest ruling among contemporary populist radical right parties (PRR). For nearly two decades, the AKP has shown tremendous success in achieving electoral dominance and political control. This article argues that AKP’s success lies in its ability to reconfigure the issue salience in Turkish politics by bringing the secular-conservative cleavage into the center of political competition. However, as this article shows, while the government’s framing of conservative/religious values was initially populist, as the Party consolidated its power, populism became secondary to nativism. This nativist turn is characterized by an emphasis on the foreignness of “the elites” and is shaped by secularization of the public sphere and antiwesternism. Overall, AKP has not presented a fundamental opposition to the “establishment” but brought together many components of Turkey’s institutional and cultural structure and radicalized patterns already present in earlier eras.

DOI 10.1075/jlp.22130.bal

Cilt 22