The Quran is the prophet Muhammad's answer to this corruption. As nomadic tribes settled, their values quickly became corrupted, the culture of helping the needy disappeared, and both the accumulation of wealth in the hands of few and poverty rapidly increased. The Quran is primarily a book seeking solutions for the communities of the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century. The speech (nutuk) is the most significant source for understanding the blend of secularism, statism and nationalism known as Kemalism that dominated the thinking of those in power before President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamists came to power in 2002.īoth sides of the political chasm that divides Turkey believe they can solve the nation’s by going back to what they see as the golden ages that these books represent the seventh century for the Quran, or the peak Kemalism of the 1930s. Turkey today is caught between two texts the Quran and the 1927 six-day speech by the nation's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. We can no longer use the phrase “caught between the mosque and the barracks” to describe Turkey because the mosque now controls the barracks, or at least those institutions have formed an Islamist-nationalist alliance that was unimaginable 10 to 15 years ago.
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