Turkish Extreme Right - Wing Movements – Between Turkism, Islamism, Eurasism, and Pan -Turkism

Conspiracy theory as spatial practice: The case of the Sivas arson attack, Turkey

“…2 Described by my interlocutors as “the local intellectual hangout,” this is an alcohol-free establishment whose clientele consists virtually only of men. My interlocutors here included several outspoken supporters of the BBP (Great Union Party), whose ideology synthesizes Sunni Islamism and Turkish nationalism (Tapia, 2011: 309). Sivas is famously the BBP stronghold and, at the time of my fieldwork, was the only municipality governed by one of its members.…”

The study of the far right and its three E’s: why scholarship must go beyond Eurocentrism, Electoralism and Externalism

“…By contrast, there is still little work on non-European parties and few efforts have been made to link research on Europe and other regions(McDonnell and Cabrera 2019;Leidig 2019). This is even more frustrating considering the relevance of far-right politics across Latin America, India, Indonesia, Turkey(Jaffrelot 2007;Tapia 2011;Lengkeek 2018), as well as industrialized countries like Australia, Israel, Japan, South Africa and the United States(Fleming and Mondon 2018;Perliger and Pedahzur 2018;Higuchi 2018;Parker 2018). In short, while the number of studies has grown significantly, we still know very little about the nature and behaviour of several important political parties beyond the western European context.…”