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In actual fact, I argue, Turkish secularization rises and falls on the auspices of its predominant regime ideology. Asymmetric information between the government’s internal actions and external messages forces Turkey’s ostensible acceptance of this narrative, and provides the West with a false sense of security. This not only collapses under the actual facts of Turkish history, but also is a Western narrative crafted to anachronistically contextualize Turkish revolts and refocus Middle Eastern policy on the Levant. This essay’s goal is to destabilize that narrative. Western media sources grew fearful: with the marriage of mosque and state, Turkey’s democratic experiment could be finished. The internal fault lines it revealed called the policy itself into question. Nevertheless, it failed to stop the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), a religious faction whose policies starkly contrast with those that secularization was instituted to uphold. Later, it became the organizational matrix by which its military held the regime’s politics in check, and now forms the backbone of the current Turkish system. Secularization was an Atatürk-era political tenet that helped westernize Turkey in the tumult of its postwar transition from empire to constitutional republic.
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Yet possibly the most fascinating out was the popular narrative that the coup both created and confirmed of Turkish state secularization as a failed policy. With hundreds dead thousands purged from politics, academia, the military, and the courts and flagrant nationalism propping up the most stridently Islamist government the republic has seen in years–the “new revolution” has certainly come to pass, and its implications are many. Never in 2016 were The Who’s famous lyrics in “Won’t Get Fooled Again” more apt or applicable than with this summer’s attempted coup in Turkey. They decide and the shotgun sings the song And the morals that they worship will be gone