Turkey's July 15th coup : what happened and why /

"On July 15, 2016, a faction of the Turkish military tried to overthrow the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The attempt failed. The Turkish government blamed the attempted coup on Gülenists, followers of an Islamist movement led by Fethullah Gülen, who had helped Erdoğan and his A...

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Other Authors: Yavuz, M. Hakan (Editor), Balci, Bayram (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, 2017
Series:Utah Series in Middle East Studies
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the Gülen Movement and the coup / M. Hakan Yavuz and Bayram Balci
  • The three stages of the Gülen Movement : from pietistic weeping movement to power-obsessed structure / M. Hakan Yavuz
  • The July 15th coup : a critical framework for analysis / Mujeeb R. Khan
  • The Gülen Movement vs. Erdoğan : the failed coup / M. Hakan Yavuz and Rasim Koç
  • "Woe to him, for how he schemed" : Fethullah Gülen, the U.S., and the damaging of Turkish democracy / Michael A. Reynolds
  • Understanding the July 15th failed coup / Kiliç Kanat
  • The Gülen Movement and the AK Party : the rise and fall of a Turkish Islamist alliance / Caroline Tee
  • Contradictions of Islamic neoliberal globalization : the Turkish case / Sabine Dreher
  • The coup attempt in Turkey and its effect on the future of the Gülen Movement in the post-Soviet space / Bayram Balci
  • Secrecy and hierarchy within the Gülen Movement and the question of academic responsibility / David Tittensor
  • Women in the Gülen Movement : life in a postmodern display, enshrined with sacredness / Yavuz Çobanoğlu
  • Navigating the future of the Gülen Movement in Tanzania / Kristina Dohrn
  • A Turkish red herring? The production and consumption of Fethullah Gülen as "good Islam" / Joshua Hendrick
  • Postscript : how credible are alternative coup scenarios? / M. Hakan Yavuz.