Turkey

Pollsters failed to capture the nationalist deep wave that has swept over Turkey. Erdoğan is trying to outgrow the Turkish Republic from within, bit by bit. A conversation with Selim Koru on the first round of 2023 Turkish presidential elections

State identity and societal identity are diverging in Turkey: while religion is more and more used by politics in all areas, the younger generations have begun to distance themselves from Islam. A development that offers clues about the future of the country

Since the AKP took power in Turkey, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has become an instrument of political influence and one of the main interlocutors of European states

The Turkish Minister for European Affairs, Egemen Bağiş, explains his Turkey: its desire to enter into a European Union that does not however seem in a hurry to welcome it; its extraordinary economic development; its new role as inspirational model for those of the Arab countries which aspire to reproduce its combination of Islam with democracy.

The prehistory of the current secular republican regime goes back to the early years of the nineteenth century, when the Empire began to set out the limits of state authority and the rights of citizens, Muslim and non-Muslim. The still ongoing tension between state and religion originated at the same period

To deepen the understanding of some of the players of the political turmoil that Turkey is experiencing, Oasis proposes two interviews with two of the most relevant people in the country. Fethullah Gülen is the founder of a movement spread in many countries and operating in several fields, from economics to education, who is now critical towards the present Government, and Egemen Bağiş, close to Erdoğan, former Minister of Relations with the EU, who has resigned after the accusation of corruption that struck some members of the present Government.