CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Erikli, Rumeysanur |
|---|---|
| Title | The December 17-25 Corruption/Coup incidents in Turkey: in the Eyes of Islamic Social Movements |
| Summary | Corruption is a powerful tool used by social movements in order to denounce governments; however, in some cases this power does not manifest itself smoothly as it is expected. What prevents people to see “the truth”, the illegitimacy of corrupt governments? In this work I analyze how and why civil society organizations react differently to the state level corruption by focussing on Islamic social movements’ framing of the December 17-25, 2013 scandal in Turkey. Although the incident resulted in two polarized camps: those calling it as corruption of the government, The Justice and Development Party (the AKP), and those calling as a coup attempt of a movement, the Gulen Movement, ruled by the west, I aim to go beyond this polarization by focusing on three Islamic social movements which have different political and religious positions: (i) those who used to be radical Islamists in 1980s, opposed the Gulen Movement, became the AKP supporters after the December 17- 25 incidents, and still can be called as “Islamists” since they keep their ideals of independent Islamic unity (ii) the Gulen Movement members who represent an understanding of moderate Islam in which they do not mobilize Islam as a political ideology as opposed to the Islamists, and (iii) Anti-Capitalist Muslims who have socialist understanding of Islam and opposes bourgeoisification of Muslims during the rule of the AKP. Based on this research, I claim that civil society in a country is not monolithic and they have different relationship with the ruling power and those who revealed the corruption of the government and different worldviews, especially politico-religious ideas for my case. This diversity influences how they approach and frame state-level corruption. |
| Supervisor | Fabiani Jean-Louis |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/eriklli_rumeysanur.pdf |
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