The transformation of the Turkish state is examined here in the context of globalized frames of neo-liberal capitalism and contemporary schemes of Islamic politics. It shows how the historical emergence of two distinct yet intertwined imaginaries of state structuring, secularism (laiklik) and Islam, continue to influence Turkish politics as strongly today as they did in the nineteenth century. The Ottoman integration into the nineteenth century market economy produced a secular state-restructuring project. Mid-twentieth century statism produced the laik Kemalist state. Late twentieth and early twenty-first century neoliberalist capitalist ideas, emanating from the EU and the IMF-World Bank, are shaping the current Islamic state-restructuring project. Nowhere is this more evident than in the context of Turkey's EU membership bid. It is contingent, at the national level, on the political mobilization of various social groups who uphold Islamic ethical principles of justice and embody globalized, interpretive frames of referencing. Although this demonstrates how power relations in the state have been reconstituted under domestic and world-historical conditions, the outcome is, nonetheless, by no means certain.
  
 

Islam's Marriage with Neoliberalism
The Allure of the West
Turkish Islam: Unthinking Kemalism?
Reconstituting the State: The Islamic Framing of Neoliberalism
Kemalist State Feminism and the Islamic Dress Code
Politics Without Guarantees: The Headscarf Ban
Headscarf Madness: Narratives of Religious Rights
Conclusion
References
Notes
Index

YILDIZ ATASOY is Associate Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her books include Hegemonic Transitions, the State and Crisis in Neoliberal Capitalism (edited); Turkey, Islamists and Democracy: Transition and Globalization in a Muslim State and Global Shaping and Its Alternatives (edited with William K. Carroll).