Islam – Siyasa

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Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism: An Interview with Mohammad Hassan Khalil

RAMAZAN KILINÇ, FEBRUARY 16, 2019 Mohammad Hassan Khalil is coming to the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where I teach, to give a talk on his latest book, Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism. I wanted to have a very brief interview with Dr. Khalil about his book before his talk in Omaha. I hope to […]

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Turkish Islamism 2.0: Hegemonic, Nationalist, and Populist

RAMAZAN KILINÇ 30 AUGUST 2016, BERKLEY FORUM If it had succeeded, the July 15 coup would have turned Turkey into a military authoritarian regime. It might have even led Turkey into a spiral of violent political instability for several years to come. The failure of the coup saved Turkey from a possible military authoritarianism and […]

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Turkey: from Conservative Democracy to Popular Authoritarianism

RAMAZAN KILINÇ 5 DECEMBER 2015, OPEN DEMOCRACY On Sunday, November 1, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained its majority in the parliament, winning the 49 percent of the votes. The party secured 317 seats in a 550-member parliament to continue its single-party government for another term, after losing it in the June 7 elections. Despite […]

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Muslims Maintain Unique Identities within our American Mosaic

RAMAZAN KILINÇ 1 NOVEMBER 2015, OMAHA WORLD HERALD The writer is an assistant professor of political science and director of the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Are Muslims part of the American mosaic? This question requires us to address a dilemma for many American Muslims: searching for purity in one’s faith […]

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What Happened to the “Turkish Model”?

RAMAZAN KILINÇ 24 MARCH 2014, OPEN DEMOCRACY Turkey blocked Twitter late at night on March 20. This was a culmination of a series of authoritarian moves since last summer. In summer 2013, the government harshly responded to the popular protests that grew after a group of people organised demonstrations to prevent Istanbul city government from […]

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Secularism, Nationalism and Religious Minorities in Turkey

RAMAZAN KILINÇ 3 MAY 2012, SIGHTINGS, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO In a recent New York Times article Susanne Güsten described the difficulties that Syriac Christians faced throughout the history of Republican Turkey. This story reflects the traumatic consequences of the nation-building process that modern Turkey has experienced since the 1920s and 1930s. The Turkish official national […]