Preface
Figures and Tables
Summary
Acknowledgments
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
Politics and Religion in Turkey
Structure of the report
The Islamic landscape in Turkey
Religion, ethnicity and politics
The management of Islam
Sufi brotherhoods
Religious movements
Islamic foundations
Islamic schools
Shiites and Alevis
Turkish attitudes toward religion
The violent fringe
Turks in Europe
The rise of political Islam in Turkey
The impact of the Kemalist revolution
The advent of multi-party democracy
The "Turkish-Islamic synthesis"
The impact of the ZAL reforms
The rise of the religious right
Political Islam in power : the welfare interlude
The impact of the February 28 process
The AKP in power
The reconfiguration of Turkish politics
The AKP : a new synthesis or Islamism in disguise?
"Green money"
The headscarf controversy
The Imam-Hatip schools controversy
Non-Muslims minorities under AKP rule
The AKP and the Kurds
The AKP and the military
AKP's foreign policy
Relations with Europe
Relations with the United States
Relations with the Middle East
Future prospects and implications
Whither Turkey : alternative political futures
Scenario 1 : the AKP pursues a moderate, EU-oriented path
Scenario 2 : creeping Islamization
Scenario 3 : military intervention
Implications for U.S. policy.