Introduction: the Justice and Development Party : making choices, revisions and reversals interactively / Umit Cizre -- The specific evolution of contemporary political Islam in Turkey and its 'difference' / Menderes Cinar and Burhanettin Duran -- Problematizing the intellectual and political vestiges : from 'welfare' to 'justice and development' / Ahmet Yildiz -- The emergence of Turkey's contemporary 'Muslim democrats' / Kenan Cayir -- The Justice and Development Party's 'new politics' : steering toward conservative democracy, a revised Islamic agenda or management of new crises? / Burhanettin Duran -- The Justice and Development Party and the Kemalist establishment / Menderes Cinar -- The Justice and Development Party and the military : recreating the past after reforming it? / Umit Cizre -- The Justice and Development Party and the European Union : from Euro-scepticism to Euro-enthusiasm and Euro-fatigue / Ali Resul Usul -- The social bases of the Justice and Development Party / Ibrahim Dalmis and Ertan Aydin.
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Concerned with the development of Islamic politics inside Turkey, in particular the rise of the Justice and Development Party that now rules the country, this text examines the changes that have taken place within the party itself, the role of the secular state and wider international issues including accession to the EU.