Turkey: A Nation that Possesses Both Western and Islamic Features

Turkey is a paradox to the eyes of many people seeking a complete discontinuity between the West and its values, culture and other countries. As often considered to be an example of incompatibility between Islam and Western values, Turkey seems to cross the apparent Westernization boundary while deeply rooted in culture and the values ​​of the Middle East It looks like. Turkey is one of the two countries designated by Freedom House and Israel in election democracy in the Middle East, but the majority of the population is Muslim.

Many Western democracies regard Islam as an obstacle to democracy, but Turkey is seen as a model of democracy as it knows that it is guided by the Islamic Party (AKP) I will. Indeed, even though Turkey is regarded as an Islamic country, it is regarded as democracy. Turkey is considered a democracy in the 20th century, but how do you explain the democratic performance of Turkey, not the country led by other Muslim countries and Islamic party?

There are diverse cultures in Turkey that combine Turkish, Anatolian, Ottoman Empire (itself a Greek, Roman alphabet, continuation of Islamic culture) and Western culture, and traditional elements that started in the Ottoman Empire. It is westernization and it continues today. This mix was originally initiated by the cultural encounters of the Turks and their cultures and those who emigrated from Central Asia to the West. Turkish culture is a product of efforts to become a "modern" Western country while maintaining traditional religious and historical values.

Turkish culture revolution is trying to fully integrate modern culture and Western methods into public life and to classify Islam as private life. With this in mind, almost everything that made Islam part of the Ottoman life's life was demolished and Muslim was redefined as a modern personal religion for the citizens of Turkish secular countries It was. The scientific and secular focus of global modernity directly challenges the core beliefs of supernatural religion. Capitalism, industrialization and globalization disturb the religious tradition of class, family and gender. The world economy is challenging ethnic groups related to religion. - Normally from foreigners (Western). Basicism is a religious reaction to the refusal of modernity, it fights religious rights