Research Catalog

Title

Turkey's July 15th coup : what happened and why / edited by M. Hakan Yavuz and Bayram Balcı.

Publication

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Yavuz, M. Hakan
• Balci, Bayram

Description

viii, 344 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"On July 15, 2016, a faction of the Turkish military tried to overthrow the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The attempt failed. The Turkish government blamed the attempted coup on Gülenists, followers of an Islamist movement led by Fethullah Gülen, who had helped Erdoğan and his AK Party get elected and bring an ostensibly 'soft' version of Islam into the secular Turkish government. In alliance with the AK Party, Gülenists over time became widely represented in various government institutions, including the military and police. This volume focuses on the Gülen Movement and its possible role in the failed coup, providing historical and sociopolitical context for what may have led to this conflict. Editors Yavuz and Balcı were among the first to study the movement from its beginning. They and other contributors have spent time in Turkey, Central Asia, and the Balkans examining various dimensions of Gülenist activity as the movement became a major economic and educational force in Turkey and elsewhere. Startled by the 2016 coup attempt, a group of scholars who had studied the Gülenists came together to discuss how and why the once-restrained movement became belligerent opponents of Erdoğan's government. This book is a product of their exchanges and it addresses questions such as: what did researchers fail to see in their earlier studies and how will this major disruption in Turkey affect the future of the movement?"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Utah Series in Middle East studies

Uniform Title

Utah series in Middle East studies.

Alternative Title

Turkey's July fifteenth coup

Subjects

• Turkey
• Coups d'état
• Democracy
• Democracy > Turkey
• 2000-2099
• Turkey > History > Attempted coup, 2016
• Politics and government
• Gülen, Fethullah
• Gülen Hizmet Movement
• History
• Turkey > History > 21st century
• Coups d'état > Turkey > 21st century
• Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip
• Turkey > Politics and government > 21st century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index.

Contents

Introduction : the Gülen Movement and the coup / M. Hakan Yavuz and Bayram Balci -- The three stages of the Gülen Movement : from pietistic weeping movement to power-obsessed structure / M. Hakan Yavuz -- The July 15th coup : a critical framework for analysis / Mujeeb R. Khan -- The Gülen Movement vs. Erdoğan : the failed coup / M. Hakan Yavuz and Rasim Koç -- "Woe to him, for how he schemed" : Fethullah Gülen, the U.S., and the damaging of Turkish democracy / Michael A. Reynolds -- Understanding the July 15th failed coup / Kiliç Kanat -- The Gülen Movement and the AK Party : the rise and fall of a Turkish Islamist alliance / Caroline Tee -- Contradictions of Islamic neoliberal globalization : the Turkish case / Sabine Dreher -- The coup attempt in Turkey and its effect on the future of the Gülen Movement in the post-Soviet space / Bayram Balci -- Secrecy and hierarchy within the Gülen Movement and the question of academic responsibility / David Tittensor -- Women in the Gülen Movement : life in a postmodern display, enshrined with sacredness / Yavuz Çobanoğlu -- Navigating the future of the Gülen Movement in Tanzania / Kristina Dohrn -- A Turkish red herring? The production and consumption of Fethullah Gülen as "good Islam" / Joshua Hendrick -- Postscript : how credible are alternative coup scenarios? / M. Hakan Yavuz.

Call Number

JFE 18-3326

ISBN

• 9781607816065
• 1607816067

LCCN

2017051651

OCLC

1010697818

Title

Turkey's July 15th coup : what happened and why / edited by M. Hakan Yavuz and Bayram Balcı.

Publisher

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Utah Series in Middle East studies

Utah series in Middle East studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-336) and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Yavuz, M. Hakan, editor.

Balci, Bayram, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-3326