What is Behind the Headscarf Ruling of the Turkish Constitutional Court?

Saygili, Abdurrahman

doi:10.1080/14683849.2010.483844

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“…Nevertheless, the JDP government did push several ideological issues to the forefront of the national agenda. For example, the türban , a kind of Islamic headscarf, had been forbidden in public places in Turkey, as required by the secular Constitution . On several occasions the JDP attempted to reinterpret secularism in a flexible manner to allow the wearing of headscarves on university campuses and in other public places such as government offices, schools and hospitals.…”

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A Symptomatic Analysis of the Justice and Development Party's Populism in Turkey, 2007–2010

Dinçşahin¹

2012

Gov. & oppos.

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This article focuses on the populist strategy of the Turkish Justice and Development Party between the 2007 presidential election, when Turkish politics experienced an impasse, and the 2010 referendum over the constitutional amendments. As a means of analysing populism, the symptomatic approach is preferred over other theoretical perspectives, including empiricism and historicism. An analysis of the discourse articulated by Prime Minister Erdoğan leads us to the conclusion that he has continually appealed to the masses with an anti-institutional rhetoric that divides society into ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’, thereby fulfilling the criteria of populism according to the symptomatic approach.

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