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GLOBALIZATION AND POLITICAL ISLAM: THE SOCIAL BASES OFTURKEY'S WELFARE PARTY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2002

Haldun Gülalp
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Political Islam has gained heightened visibility in recent decades in Turkey. Large numbers of female students have begun to demonstrate their commitment by wearing the banned Islamic headdress on university campuses, and influential pro-Islamist TV channels have proliferated. This paper focuses on the Welfare (Refah) Party as the foremost institutional representative of political Islam in Turkey.

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Research Article
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , August 2001 , pp. 433 - 448
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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