Ahmet Erdi Öztürk on Turkey’s religious affairs directorate
September 4, 2018
Turkey Book Talk episode #72 – Ahmet Erdi Öztürk of Strasbourg University on the past, present and future of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet).
Öztürk is author of the paper “Turkey’s Diyanet under AKP rule: From protector to imposer of state ideology?” He is also co-author of “Diyanet as a Turkish Foreign Policy Tool: Evidence from the Netherlands and Bulgaria.”
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September 4, 2018 at 4:33 pm
Enjoyed this talk; well-informed, courageous. I appreciate the attention especially to how Diyanet has been increasingly engaged in instrumentalizing Islam in the direction of Turkish nationalism, and Erdogan loyalty–with a heavy dose of anti-Gulen “crusading,” as you (perhaps unfortunately) put it.