Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Hello everyone, eventually I am posting.

This piece is written by James W. Warhola and Egemen B. Bezci, was taken from Journal of Church and State, Vol.52 Issue 3 in September 2010, with the title ' Religion and State in Contemporary Turkey: Recent Developments in Laiklik.

Laiklik 
as defined in the same paper ( a Turkish word, derived from the French “laicite,” meaning roughly secularism), and this piece mentions the four Turkish military coups and how that corruption lead to a stronger public religiosity, consequently, AKP ( Turkish words mean Justice and Development Party) which is currently the strongest parliamentary party in Turkey.

Reason I am posting this piece, is that the military coup in Egypt, that took place in June 30th, 2013, is similar to the Turkish fourth one 1997 'soft coup'. Additionally, the impact of this coup seems quite similar too regarding the public's religiosity despite there is not a strong party to take advantage of that other than the military right now. You can also find in the last paragraph the reason why AKP has got so much power. I just read a headlines on the net says that Erdogan is likely to be the next president. 


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