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The West's actions in the Middle East are based on a fundamental misunderstanding. From Erdo?an's Turkey to the so-called Islamic State and the Syrian Civil War, political Islam is repeatedly assumed to be the main cause of conflict and unrest. This dangerous over-simplification dominates media and policy analysis on the Middle East and skews intervention, preventing long-term solutions and stability. How did the West get everything so wrong? And what can be done to break the vicious circle?Omer Taspinar, who has 20 years' research and policymaking experience, shows that the West's obsession...

Omer Taspinar studies the national & secular identity of Turkey in light of the challenges posed by Kurdish nationalism & political Islam.

Although identity related problems gained a new sense of urgency after Turkey's last military take-over in 1980, they are far from being products of the last two decades.
This text is an attempt to study Turkey's national and secular identity in light of the challenges posed by Kurdish nationalism and political Islam. The underlying premise of this work is that Kurdish nationalism and political Islam represent existential threats to Turkey's Kemalist military and political establishment. While any evidence, no matter how minor, of Kurdish nationalism is perceived as a major security...