Is Islam a Cure for Ethnic Conflict? Evidence from Turkey
Turkish Islamists have long attributed the root causes of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey to the anti-religious Turkish nationalism promulgated by the secular Kemalist republican elite in the 1920s. As a result, they lay emphasis on Islamic brotherhood as the glue that holds numerous ethnic nationa...
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Politics and religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 135-154 |
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