Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. If fundamentalism is a term often appropriated in the west to describe certain foreign extremist organizations, ...
THIS is with reference to Prof Shameem Akhtar’s letter ‘Clergy-feudal nexus’ (July 26) in which the learned writer speaks of the ‘fate of Kemalism in Turkey’. Kemalism is as strong as ever. The ...
In both Turkey and the West, Kemalism -- the principle that Turkey should be secular and Western -- has been pronounced dead. The country is drifting away from both, the argument goes, and Islamists, ...
In an article for Cif yesterday, Stephen Kinzer wondered if the Justice and Development party -- known as the AKP -- is up for this new fight, but he should be in no doubt. The AKP has learned that ...
After centuries of empire, Atatürk’s Kemalism introduced a bold experiment: replace imperial rule with reason, science, and secular nationalism. Through sweeping reforms, from education to language to ...
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Revolutions take place when an existing social order is no longer able to reproduce itself and new social and political forces are successfully able to challenge the status quo. Almost invariably, ...
THIS is with reference to Prof Shameem Akhtar’s letter ‘Clergy-feudal nexus’ (July 26) in which the learned writer speaks of the ‘fate of Kemalism in Turkey’. Kemalism is as strong as ever. The ...