THE CHANGING POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT IN TURKEY.

ISLAM & politics; ISLAMISTS; NATION-state; LIBERALISM; MODERNITY; NATIONALISM

This article deals with the Islamist movement and its ideology throughout the process of modernization and analyzes the political discourse of the Islamists about a world of consumption and the Islamic lifestyle. The article depicts the course of the Islamist political discourse from the beginning. The political discourse of the Islamists showed variations depending on the changing domestic and foreign conjunctions. Developed through a defensive understanding in the final period of the Ottoman State, the discourse of the Islamist movement underwent further changes in the following periods, which was influenced by the internal conditions of the country and developments outside. As the Islamist movement has always adapted to modern political life, political and intellectual changes in the modern period caused the Islamist discourse to change politically and acquire an appropriate language for the new situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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