Europeanization and Tolerance in Turkey: The Myth of TolerationThe book questions the popularity of the notion of tolerance in Turkey, and argues that the regime of tolerance has been strengthened in parallel with the Europeanization process, which has boosted the rhetoric of the Alliance of Civilizations in a way that culturalized what is social and political. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Continuous Journey of Europeanization | 28 |
2 Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Discourses in Turkey | 71 |
100 Years of Solitude | 101 |
Limits of Tolerance | 132 |
5 The Headscarf Issue | 157 |
Social Critique of the Holy Trinity SunniMuslimTurk | 175 |
Conclusion | 210 |
Notes | 222 |
Bibliography | 234 |
Index | 257 |
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