Preface; Content; Introduction; Situating Change Under the AKP; Introduction; Re-assessing the AKP period, change and continuity; The persistence of majoritarianism despite change; 'Path-dependent path-shaping'; Beyond change and continuity: political cycles and hybrid regimes; Conclusion; References; Political Trials and the Second Jurisdiction of the State: Normalcy of the Exception; Political Character of Trials; Justice of Specially Authorized Courts; The Character of Specially Authorized Courts: Exception and Extraordinary?; Ordinariness of Political Justice; References.

"To Make Mosques a Place for Women" Female Religious Engagement within the Turkish Presidency of Religious AffairsIntroduction; Approaching female religious engagement: a matter of method; From engagement to offices: the institutionalization of female personnel within the Diyanet; Inside the Diyanet's "New Gender Policy"; Concluding remarks; References; Personalistic Linkages and Persuasion in Turkish Party Politics; Introduction; Temporality in Clientelism and Political Persuasion; A Brief History of Clientelism in Turkey; The AKP's Clientelistic Efforts and Its Impact on Voters; Conclusion.

Cooperation with the Other Ethnic or Religious OrganisationsThrough the Initiative of the Community Leaders; Cooperation with the Academic and Legal Professionals; Conclusion; References; AKP's Implementation of a Risk Management Project of the World Bank. A Risk Management Project of the World Bank: Creating Entrepreneurial or Charity-Dependent Poor People?; Introduction; Social Risk Management; Social Risk Management as Neoliberal Governmentality; The Social Risk Mitigation Project (SRMP) in Turkey; The Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Social Assistance as Charity.

AKP's Implementation of the Social Risk Mitigation Project (SRMP)Conclusion; References; Power and poetry: Kanuni Sultan Süleyman`s Third Divan; History of Emotion; Ottoman ruler poetry; Ottoman Poetry in the era of Kanuni Sultan Süleyman; The ruler poet Muḥibbī and his dīvāns; The audience; General intentionality; Conclusion; References; Locating the German-Turks: Transnational Migration to Turkey and Constructions of Identity and Space; Background and Main Arguments; German-Turkish Constructions of Identity; Othering and Diasporic Cultural Intimacy.