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National conceptions, transnational solidarities: Turkey, Islam and Europe
Date
2018-07-01
Author
Çıtak Aytürk, Zana Ayşe
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In this article, I examine the interplay between the institutionalization of Islam in Europe and the transnationalism of Turkey's Directorate for Religious Affairs (Diyanet). Based on extensive fieldwork in Turkey, Austria, Belgium, France and Germany, I demonstrate not only the salience of the nation-state prerogative on the part of both European states and the Turkish state but also the tension between national conceptions of Muslim identity on both sides amid transnational solidarities. I also argue that, to a certain extent, European policies of detransnationalizing the Muslim field in Europe also intersect with the Diyanet's transnational politics vis-a-vis Turkish/Muslim immigrants in their common resistance to the deculturalization of Muslims in Europe. While European countries try to nationalize their respective Muslim communities into their cultural and juridical framework through reterritorialization, the Diyanet has increasingly deterritorialized its activities to preserve a Muslim identity engrained in Turkishness - hence, the coexistence of both a tension and mutual accommodation between Europe and Turkey.
Subject Keywords
Turkey
,
Europe
,
Identity
,
Religion
,
Transnationalism
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41824
Journal
GLOBAL NETWORKS-A JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL AFFAIRS
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12184
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Department of International Relations, Article