Silent Violence - The AKP Years in Turkey Neoliberalism with a Muslim Face

SILENT VIOLENCE:
NEOLIBERALISM, ISLAMIST POLITICS AND THE AKP YEARS IN TURKEY

"The AKP Years in Turkey: Neoliberalism with a Muslim Face"
by Professor Simten Cosar (visiting speaker from Turkey)

recorded on March 20th, 2012
at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON

Book Contents

Part I: State, Law and Society

 1. Politics and Discourse under the AKP’s Rule: The Marginalisation of Class-Based Politics, Erdoğanisation, and Post-Secularism [21] by: Galip Yalman

 2. Fragments of Changes in the Legal System in the AKP Years: The Development and Reproduction of Market Friendly Law [43] by: Ali Murat Özdemir

 3. The AKP’s Hold on Power: Neoliberalism Meets the Turkish-Islamic Synthesis[67] by: Simten Coşar

 4. Islamist Bourgeoisie and Democracy under the AKP’s Rule: Democratisation or Marketisation of Politics?[93] by: Berna Yılmaz

Part II: Social Policy, Citizenship and Gender

 5. The Social Policy Regime in the AKP Years: The Emperor’s New Clothes [125] by: Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir

 6. The AKP’s Citizenisation Project: Where To? [153] by: Nalan Soyarık-Şentürk

 7. The AKP and the Gender Issue: Shuttling between Neoliberalism and Patriarchy [179] by: Metin Yeğenoğlu & Simten Coşar


Part III: Global Interfaces: Politics, Economy and International Relations

 8. Turkish Foreign Policy under the AKP Governments: An Interplay of Imperial Legacy, Neoliberal Interests  and Pragmatism [213] by: Birgül Demirtaş

9. Internalisation of Dependency: The AKP’s Dance with the Global Institutions of Neoliberalism [251] by: Filiz Zabcı

10. The EU and the AKP: A Neoliberal Love Affair? [269] by: Zuhal Yeşilyurt-Gündüz

Conclusion: Hearing the Silence of Violence: Neoliberalism and Islamist Politics under the AKP Governments [295] by: Simten Coşar & Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir

 

 

Democracy and Class Struggle publish this video has useful background to current events in Turkey even though the talk was given in March 2012 for a better analysis of Kemalism see :

 

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/kemalism-and-fascism-revolutionary.html

 

Taksim and Tahrir are both against Neo-Liberalism with a Muslim face, however the opposition forces to neo liberalism need to raise up the three magic weapons of revolutionary change the revolutionary party, the united front and the people's army guided by the ideology of Marxism Leninism Maoism and expose the fake revolutionaries like Otpor and other capitalist hijackers of people's revolt .