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Daily Sabah
March 3, 2017
In this historical context, Necmettin Erbakan emerged as the supporter of a third option apart from the binary opposition of capitalism and communism.
Anadolu Agency
February 28, 2017
Turkey's president and prime minister Tuesday commemorated the sixth anniversary of the passing of former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan. "I commemorate with respect and mercy the prime minister of the 54th government, honorable Professor Dr.
Anadolu Agency
February 5, 2017
... surrounded by GIR commanders, any president who does not follow the instructions of the GIR would be removed either through a post-modernist coup (the way Turkey's late Necmettin Erbakan was pressured to step down from the premiership in 1997),ÃÂ ...
Yeni Şafak English
November 26, 2016
Before anything, thinking that the political parties founded by Necmettin Erbakan are exactly like the Ikhwan movement is a shortcut taken by those who choose to overlook the great differences between Turkey and Egypt's social structures.
Yeni Şafak English
November 26, 2016
By temporarily freezing negotiations, the European Parliament has made a decision to the detriment of Turkey. The relation between Turkey and the European Union has been rather fragile in recent years.
Leadership Newspapers
September 21, 2016
During the short-lived tenure of the pro-Islamist Welfare Party (Refah Party) and the premiership of its leader Necmettin Erbakan, between 1996 and 1997, the party attempted to reorient Turkey's foreign policy and at least rebalance its overwhelminglyÃÂ ...
Hurriyet Daily News
September 16, 2016
The RP, meanwhile, benefited from its leader Necmettin Erbakan's approach: Yes it was Islamist but it also had this kind of conservative social democrat appeal to it.
Yeni Şafak English
September 15, 2016
28 coup on late politician Necmettin Erbakan. When the Dec. 17 coup attempt had started, it was claimed that the U.S. ambassador of the time told a group of U.S.
Hurriyet Daily News
September 14, 2016
The CHP harvested the votes of struggling city dwellers in the 1970s. But after the 1980 military coup, a window of opportunity opened for political Islam.
Middle East Eye
September 5, 2016
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Ali Turksen was hailed as a national hero for years - until he was unceremoniously imprisoned in 2011. As the commander of an elite Turkish underwater commando unit, he had led the operation on the Aegean island of Kardak in 1996ÃÂ ...
Millennium Post
September 4, 2016
Politically, Erdogan is an understudy of Necmettin Erbakan who came to power as leader of the Islamist Refah party. Refah's rise can be traced to the brutalisation of Bosnian Muslims and the four-year siege of Sarajevo.
Business Standard
September 3, 2016
Politically, Erdogan is an understudy of Necmettin Erbakan who came to power as leader of the Islamist Refah party. Refah's rise can be traced to the brutalisation of Bosnian Muslims and the four-year siege of Sarajevo.
Al-Monitor
September 1, 2016
This reminded me that some 20 years ago, I heard then-Foreign Minister David Levy responding to a rebuke by former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, saying, "Turkey is the last country that can preach to us." Levy was referring to the ArmenianÃÂ ...
Voice of America
August 30, 2016
"Nobody knows where this illegal organization starts and where it ends," said Sedat Gumus, an associate professor at Necmettin Erbakan University in central Konya. "In such a context, suspending many people from their jobs is understandable. In theÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
August 26, 2016
Necmettin Erbakan, the former Prime Minister, emphasized the significance of Turkey's membership in the European Union by brilliantly stating "as a prospective member of the EU, Turkey should strengthen its political, economic and cultural ties with ...
Premium Times
August 19, 2016
8 - Students from Meviana University (excluding Faculty of education) will be transferred to Seicuk University, Students of Faculty of Education to Necmettin Erbakan University. 9 - Students from Murat Hudavendigar University will be transferred ...
Frontline
August 17, 2016
Erdogan has been always suspicious of the military which unseated Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan belonging to the Refah (Welfare) Party, a pre-incarnation of Erdogan's AKP.
Pakistan Observer
August 15, 2016
Necmettin Erbakan, leader of Welfare Party, won the elections in 1996 and became Prime Minister but he was forced out by the military, and his party was banned.
Catholic World Report
August 12, 2016
Necmettin Erbakan and his National Viewpoint (Milli Gorus) came at a time when the rift between the urban and the rural deepened, while those who emigrated to cities found modern Turkey shallow and unsatisfying.
IndraStra Global
August 9, 2016
Having spent close to four interesting years at our Embassy there five years ago,one looks at the recent happenings in the Turkish landscape with a sense of sang froid.
LobeLog
August 9, 2016
Even when they ousted the Islamist leader of the Welfare Party, Necmettin Erbakan, in what came to be called the soft coup of 1997, the main threat to secularism in the eyes of the generals was not just Erbakan (who after all pursued an openly IslamistÃÂ ...
Ahram Online
August 5, 2016
This project was raised in 1998 during the rule of Necmettin Erbakan, where it has became obvious that conservative and Islamist elements began to play a decisive role in Turkish orientations.
Your Middle East
August 4, 2016
This last happened in 1997 when the military forced prime minister Necmettin Erbakan from the Islamic fundamentalist Welfare Party to resign.
Frontline
August 3, 2016
After crushing the rebellion, President Erdogan is effectively in control of the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, and many Turks know that his goal is to change the character of the republic, though he insists otherwise.
Times of India
August 2, 2016
... obliged to accept the armed forces' "recommendations" - including a mandatory eight-year education programme to ensure that students don't attend religious schools, and a ban on headscarves at universities.
MaltaToday
July 31, 2016
There was a religious party, the Welfare Party, whose leader Necmettin Erbakan became Prime Minister. In 1998, the military carried out what is known as a 'soft coup'.
The News on Sunday
July 30, 2016
Among politicians - such as Necmettin Erbakan, Abdullah Gul, and Erdogan - most right wing activists were influenced by Gulen.
Al-Monitor
July 29, 2016
Erdogan emerged due to nationalist traditions, which he betrayed, just as he betrayed Necmettin Erbakan in the process, preferring to espouse extremist Salafist Islamist policies once he assumed power.
Al-Monitor
July 29, 2016
Erdogan, who embodies a combination of his predecessor Necmettin Erbakan in the realm of political Islam and his former partner Fethullah Gulen in the realm of ideological Islam, has been able to implement his own unique model of governance.
Mainstream
July 26, 2016
The situation in Turkey began to take a dramatic turn with the rise of political Islam from the early 1990s following the victory of the Welfare Party (WP) or the Refah Party (RP) led by Necmettin Erbakan in the 1994 local elections and the subsequent ...
Times Higher Education (THE) (blog)
July 26, 2016
We invite international academic community to watch the situation in Turkey closely, and continue to defend academic freedoms. But we also strongly encourage them to get the correct information.
Daily Sabah
July 24, 2016
However, disturbed by the religious policies that the government supported, the military sent a memorandum to RP leader Necmettin Erbakan, which resulted in his resignation. This event, on Feb. 28, is known as the post-modern coup. The ramifications ofÃÂ ...
Harvard Political Review
July 23, 2016
In February of that year, leaders of the country's armed forces issued an incisive chastisement against the increasingly Islamist government of then prime minister Necmettin Erbakan and his Refah, or Welfare Party. There were initially no signs that ...
New Straits Times Online
July 21, 2016
When former prime minister of Turkey Necmettin Erbakan, doyen of the Islamist movement and the leader of the Refah (Welfare) Party, passed away in February 2011 there was a genuine outpouring of sympathy from friend and foe alike.
Aljazeera.com
July 20, 2016
Cengiz, who worked as a plasterer in Iskenderun, close to Hatay, was deeply involved with the local branch of Necmettin Erbakan's Islamist Saadet Party. His mother said he was very devout: "I have four children. They are all religious. But Cengiz was a ...
Daily Sabah
July 24, 2016
However, disturbed by the religious policies that the government supported, the military sent a memorandum to RP leader Necmettin Erbakan, which resulted in his resignation. This event, on Feb. 28, is known as the post-modern coup. The ramifications ofÃÂ ...
Harvard Political Review
July 23, 2016
In February of that year, leaders of the country's armed forces issued an incisive chastisement against the increasingly Islamist government of then prime minister Necmettin Erbakan and his Refah, or Welfare Party. There were initially no signs that ...
New Straits Times Online
July 21, 2016
When former prime minister of Turkey Necmettin Erbakan, doyen of the Islamist movement and the leader of the Refah (Welfare) Party, passed away in February 2011 there was a genuine outpouring of sympathy from friend and foe alike.
Aljazeera.com
July 20, 2016
Cengiz, who worked as a plasterer in Iskenderun, close to Hatay, was deeply involved with the local branch of Necmettin Erbakan's Islamist Saadet Party. His mother said he was very devout: "I have four children. They are all religious. But Cengiz was a ...
DAWN.com
July 2, 2016
This class found a voice in the shape of a party formed by a university professor, Necmettin Erbakan. The party was the National Order Party (NOP).
Aljazeera.com
June 28, 2016
During the short-lived tenure of the pro-Islamist Welfare Party (Refah Party) and the premiership of its leader Necmettin Erbakan, between 1996 and 1997, the party attempted to reorient Turkey's foreign policy and at least rebalance its overwhelminglyÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
June 20, 2016
A 20-year-old man has swallowed a 15 centimeters metal fork in Turkey's central Konya province. The family of the man with initials O.A.
Aljazeera.com
June 16, 2016
The February 28 process - the so-called "post-modern coup" - resulted in the removal of the prime minister of the day, conservative Islamist Necmettin Erbakan, and her resistance significantly jettisoned her into the spotlight. This has never been ...
LobeLog
June 15, 2016
When Ali visited Turkey in 1976, he met with Necmettin Erbakan, an important Islamist leader who later became prime minister of Turkey and was an important mentor to Erdogan.
WSGW
June 10, 2016
Ali's connection to Turkey began on a trip he took to Istanbul in October 1976, when he met with then-Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, who was a mentor of Erdogan. A funeral procession in Louisville Friday went smoothly without Erdogan ...
Daily Sabah
June 9, 2016
... invitation from the leader of Turkey's then Islamic oriented National Salvation or Milli Selamet Party (MSP), the late Necmettin Erbakan, a confirmation that Islamic oriented circles in Turkish society had more substantial ties with Ali due to ...
Telegraph.co.uk
June 6, 2016
Necmettin Erbakan, the former prime minister, who died in 2011, met Ali during his visit. He was particularly revered in Turkey for his religious conviction and strong defence of his faith, and Turks speak fondly of being glued to black-and-white ...
Hurriyet Daily News
May 13, 2016
We previously heard the word "blood" in Turkish politics from the late Necmettin Erbakan, the leader of the Islamist Welfare Party.
Tehran Times
May 10, 2016
Many consider the move as the February 28th coup against Necmettin Erbakan, therefore, we can call this change the postmodern coup II.
Middle East Eye
May 6, 2016
Had Erdogan been that cynical and pragmatic, he would not have joined with Necmettin Erbakan, Turkey's most prolific Islamist leader, and then suffered imprisonment for his political beliefs.
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