Justice and Development Party and Muslim Brotherhood in the “Arab Spring”: A Failed Post-Islamist Interaction to Transform the Middle East

Authors : Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu

Pages : 1-16

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Publication Date : 2016-04-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This paper aims at evaluating the presumed impact of the “Turkish model” on the transformation of Islamists in the Middle East through a post-Islamist turn by focusing on the interaction between Turkey’s Justice and Development Party insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(JDP); and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(MB);. It argues that the process of “Arab Spring” in general and the MB’s government experience in particular played a constitutive role in shaping public and intellectual opinions on the Turkish model. To elaborate on this argument, a media survey and in-depth interviews are conducted. Media survey includes three major newspapers: Hürriyet, Star and Zaman. This media analysis is accompanied by in-depth interviews with nine significant individuals from Turkish political and intellectual elite, who are influential in Islamist circles and the JDP.
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