The Era of Economy and Neo-Ottomanism (Ozal’s political legacy) Cover Image

Време економије и неоосманизма (Озалово политичко наслеђе)
The Era of Economy and Neo-Ottomanism (Ozal’s political legacy)

Author(s): Ana Mratinković
Subject(s): History of ideas, Islam studies, Economic policy, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Politics and religion, Economic development, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Banjoj Luci
Keywords: Neoоsmanism; Turkish-Islamic synthesis; Turgut Ozal; political Islam; Kenan Evren; nationalism; (re)islamization; liberalism; economic reforms; ozalism;

Summary/Abstract: Science nowadays recognizes an increasing number of experts who opinionate that neo-ottomanism represents ideological constant of the modern Turkish foreign policy, framework of which was set and formed in the political arena оf Turkey by its former Prime Minister and later the president Turgut Ozal with his distinctive interpretation of Turkish-Islamic synthesis, which gained a more prominent presence in his political legacy. Considering the fact that the emergence and development of the Turkish-Islamic synthesis itself in the Turkish political history may not be of general knowledge, we will seek to bring a little more light to the subject in this paper. Furthermore, we will introduce some of the revolutionary ideas of Turgut Ozal, who, in capacity of the architect of economic reforms, had liberated the business climate which subsequently led to the economic and political boom of Turkey. Orchestrated in the name of kemalism preservation, 1980 coup d’état in fact provided a suitable political base for implementation of Özal’s foreign, economic and domestic politics, later to be named ozalism, which adds new dimensions to the Turkish foreign policy, according to which Turkey would become a model of synthesis of Islam and modern democracy, and it would become a country where economic and political liberalism would be combined with conservative social values and sense of national identity, which would fundamentally be defined by Islam.

  • Issue Year: 4/2014
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 231-242
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian