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Article Citation Count: 3BEYOND THE HEADSCARF : SECULARISM AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN TURKEY(Turkish Policy Quarterly, 2013) Azak, Umut; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International RelationsThe continuing stalemate in the headscarf controversy in Turkey stems from a mutual distrust about the way the concepts of secularism, democracy, and religious freedom are understood. Both Kemalist secularism, which defends the headscarf ban for the sake of protecting the secular regime, and liberal secularism, which opposes the ban for the sake of protecting the freedom of religion of Sunni Muslims, are short of offering a truly secular perspective that can come to terms with patriarchy in both its secular and Islamic varieties. This article argues that this impasse caused by fears about either top-down Islamization or secularization can be overcome only when women's rights and freedoms at large become the main concern for all parties in the debate.Article Citation Count: 0DİNLE DOST DEVLET: ALİ FUAT BAŞGİL'E GÖRE LAİKLİK(2014) Azak, Umut; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International RelationsLaikliği ve çoğunluğu Müslüman olan bir toplumda laikliğin imkânını bilimsel olarak inceleyen Ali Fuat Başgil (1893 1967), çok-partili dönemin en etkili düşünür ve hukukçularındandır. 1950lerde yayınlanan ve geniş kitlelerce okunan yazılarında, Cumhuriyet döneminde İslamın devlet güdü- münde olduğunu; din ve devletin birbirinden tamamen ayrılması gerektiğini savunmuştur. Din öz- gürlüğünün laiklik için merkezi önemini vurgulayan Başgil, bu özgürlüğün laik bir sistem içindeki sınırlarını da eserinde tartışmıştır. Başgilin, daha sonraki hükümetler ile günümüzün resmî din söylemlerini biçimlendirecek olan laiklik anlayışının inceleneceği bu makalede, bu anlayışın, din/ İslam dostu bir devlet ile devlet-dostu bir din/İslam arasındaki mutlu birliktelik hayaline dayandığı vurgulanmaktadır.Article Citation Count: 0From Museum to National Temple: Hagia Sophia as a nationalist site of memory in the 1950s and 1960s(Indiana University Press, 2021) Azak,U.; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International Relations[No abstract available]Article Citation Count: 2The Hagia Sophia Cause' and the Emergence of Ottomanism in the 1950s(Brill, 2022) Azak, Umut; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International RelationsFocusing on the symbolism of the Hagia Sophia for the conservative nationalist movement, this article examines the emergence of Ottomanism as an attempted challenge to the Kemalist reading of Ottoman history. The Hagia Sophia, the former imperial church that was converted into a mosque by Sultan Mehmed ii and served as the imperial mosque of the Ottomans, lost its religious function and was opened as a museum in 1934 by governmental decision. This `secularization' of the building could be openly criticized especially after the transition to multiparty democracy in the late 1940s. Demands for reconverting the museum into a mosque were gradually transformed into public campaigns led by the protagonists of the conservative nationalist movement. This article analyses these campaigns as reflected in the printed press from the 1950s onwards and explores how the Hagia Sophia has since been instrumentalized for the reproduction of a xenophobic, anti-Western, Islamic and Ottomanist nationalism.Article Citation Count: 3Crossroads (1970) and the origin of Islamic Cinema in Turkey(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015) Kaya, Dilek; Azak, Umut; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International Relations; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International Relations; Tıbbi Mikrobiyoloji / Medical MicrobiologyThis article focuses on Birlesen Yollar/Crossroads (Yucel cakmakli, 1970), which pioneered the Islamic National Cinema Movement in Turkey. The film discursively constructed Turkish secularist modernization as cosmetic Westernization and promoted the Islamic way of life as the only means to true happiness-a popular theme of Islamic cinema in the late 1980s and 1990s. Although the film-makers discursively posited it as an 'alternative' film, they followed the narrative conventions of melodrama, the most popular genre of the time. Moreover, they worked with famous mainstream stars. In other words, the film-makers chose to communicate the then marginal message of Islamism by reconfiguring and Islamicizing the mainstream rather than rejecting it all together. In this respect, Crossroads was an early example of the Islamist project to Islamicize modernity in Turkey that would gain momentum in the 1990s. The article attempts to reconstruct the film's historical and continuing significance by locating it within a broader discursive context and by exploring its historical development from its production through to its passage through censorship and public reception. The article also discusses the continuities between the film's discourse and current debates on secularism and Islamism in Turkey.Article Citation Count: 1Muhafazakâr milliyetçiliğin bitmeyen davası: Mahzun mabed Ayasofya(2014) Azak, Umut; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International RelationsMilliyetçi-muhafazakâr düşüncede Ayasofya simgesini inceleyen bu çalışma,Ayasofya Müzesinin cami olarak açılması için 1950li yıllardan bugüne sürdürülen girişim ve kampanyalara odaklanılıyor. Ayasofya davasının tarihine, yazılı basına yansıyan örnekler ile ayna tutulurken, Ayasofya Camii simgesinin düşman Batı imgesi ile gayrimüslimlere yönelik ayrımcılık ve nefret söyleminin yeniden üretimini sağlayan bir araca dönüştürüldüğü ortaya konuyor.Book Part Citation Count: 1The new happy child in Islamic picture books in Turkey(Indiana University Press, 2013) Azak,U.; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International Relations[No abstract available]Article Citation Count: 1SECULARISM AND ATHEISM IN THE TURKISH PUBLIC SPHERE(Turkish Policy Quarterly, 2018) Azak, Umut; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International RelationsAs a relatively new actor in Turkish civil society, the Atheism Association has been active since 2014 as the first legally recognized organization of atheism in Turkey and in all majority-Muslim countries. This piece is an investigation of how this public assertion of atheism is put into practice in the context of rising religious conservatism. The recent atheist activism and advocacy for human rights of those who do not adhere to any theistic religion aim at pushing the limits of the freedom of expression/belief/conscience as well as expanding the secular in public space. This makes atheist activists both radical critics of a deeply institutionalized secularism in Turkey and forerunners of a future secularism embedded in a pluralist democracy.Book Part Citation Count: 4Secularists as the Saviors of Islam: Rearticulation of Secularism and the Freedom of Conscience in Turkey (1950)(Palgrave, 2012) Azak, Umut; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International Relations[No Abstract Available]Book Part Citation Count: 0State Rituals in Turkey: Commemorating the Gazi and Kubilay the Martyr(Fordham University Press, 2022) Azak,U.; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International Relations[No abstract available]Review Citation Count: 0Translating the Qur'an in an Age of Nationalism: Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey(Edinburgh Univ Press, 2018) Azak, Umut; Uluslararası İlişkiler / International Relations[No Abstract Available]
