Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
Preface to the English Edition: Wrong turn of the once-reform government-Quo vadis, the AK Party? xiii
Introduction: Turkey conflicted with itself-When citizens can no longer go swimming 1
Chapter I The Founding Axioms of the Republic of Turkey and How They Are Challenged 13
The Basic Order of the Turkish Republic 15
The state creates its own citizens 15
The center "civilizes" the province 22
Not all Turks acquiesce 27
The State and Its Elite 31
The military as founder and guarantor 31
Justice as legal protection 43
The state party CHP as political arm 52
Bülent Ecevit, the Anatolian leftist 55
The Dogma of the Elite 61
Kemalism as straightjacket 61
Laicism as ersatz religion 65
Turkish nationalism as a source of strength 69
The indoctrination in Turkish school books 74
From Outsiders to Counter-elite 79
Departure into the cities 79
Industrializing the province 87
Turning one's back on political Islam 92
Erdogan versus Erbakan 95
Transformation of Islamists 101
The Anatolian Tigers of Kahramanmaras 102
Chapter II The Counter-Elite on Its Way to Power 109
Conquering Government Power 111
The near bankruptcy of the old elite in 2001 111
The triumph of the new elite in the elections of 2002 and 2007 117
The party of the con titer-elite: On their way to a democratic people's party 123
The Dispute between the Old and the New Elite 129
"White Turks" against "Black Turks" 129
A black sheep in the public space: the headscarf 132
A repressed alternative to state schools; Imam-Hatip high schools 138
The New Elite and Islam 143
The religious authority, Diyanet 143
The Theology Faculty of Ankara 148
Fethullah Gülen, the preacher of the contemporary Islamic thinking 152
The Politics of the New Elite 159
Membership in the EU 159
Foreign policy in the Near East 166
Economic politics 170
Truck tracks into Northern Iraq 176
Chapter III Mortgages and Wealth 181
Mortgage I Disadvantaged Groups 183
Kurds in a Kemalist straightjacket 183
The Alevis, Atatürk's disappointed followers 192
Christians, expulsion and exodus 197
The Jews: some remained but their language left 206
Mortgage II Violence in Society 211
Paramilitary gangs: the "deep state" 211
Political murder: Hrant Dink not the only one 219
Patriarchal society: "honor killings" 225
Escape into death: the women of Batman 229
Wealth I Germany and Turkey 233
Brothers-in-arms and economic partners 233
Architects and archeologists 239
Professors and pedagogues 243
Wealth II Culture with a European Orientation 249
End of the monopoly 249
Diversity and an opening towards Anatolia 253
The state and private sponsors 257
Orhan Parnuk, the unpopular Nobel Prize winner 261
Appendices 267
References 295
Index 301
