Türkiye’de Siyasal İslamın Evrimi

Türkiye’de siyasal İslam 1970 yılından beri Milli Görüş partileri tarafından temsil edilmektedir. Bu

EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL ISLAM: FROM THE WELFARE PARTY TO THE VIRTUE PARTY

Political Islam has been represented by National Outlook parties since 1970 in Turkey. These partiestransformed their political discourse and became moderate in 1990s. This transformation especially was realized during the Virtue party period. In this paper I am going to present the moderation process from the Welfare Party to the Virtue party. I am going to discuss why this moderation occurred, which factors influenced transformationin political Islam in Turkey. To find reasons may help us to include other radical political movements into thesystem.

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