Ebook: Religion, politics, and Turkey's EU accession

This volume brings together a number of distinct historians, political scientists, social anthropologists, and legal scholars from Turkey and the EU. The authors address questions such as the role of religion in EU membership debates, religious parties in Turkey and Europe, religion and European security, freedom of religion and minority rights in Turkey and the EU. Turkey : European dimensions and the status of Islam / Dietrich Jung, Catharina Raudvere -- Religion as an argument in the debate on Turkish EU membership / Kemal Kirişci -- Civilization and EU-Turkey relations / Daniella Kuzmanovic -- Europe and Turkey : does religion matter? / Nur Bilge Criss -- Adnan Menderes, Islam, and his conflict with the one-party era establishment / Mogens Pelt -- "Secularism" : a key to Turkish politics? / Dietrich Jung -- The politics of security and secularism in Turkey : from the early republican era to EU accession negotiations / Pinar Bilgin -- Religion, politics, and the politics of religion in Turkey / İştar Gözaydin -- The Alevis: a "new" religious minority? : identity politics in Turkey and its relation to the EU integration process / Elisabeth Özdalga -- Turkish migrants, social capital, and culturalist discourse in Turkey-EU relations / Talip Kucukca