This book focuses on securitization and authoritarianism in Turkey with research on the country’s Islamist populist ruling party’s (AKP) oppression of different socio-political, ethnic and religious groups.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Securitisation Theory.- Chapter 3: Turkish Securitisation Culture.- Chapter 4: Kemalists, White Turks, Leftists.- Chapter 5: Securitisation of Islamic Groups And Parties.- Chapter 6: Securitisation of The Kurds.- Chapter 7: Securitisation of The Alevis.- Chapter 8: Fruits Of Securitisation.  

This book focuses on securitization and authoritarianism in Turkey with research on the country’s Islamist populist ruling party’s (AKP) oppression of different socio-political, ethnic and religious groups. In doing so, it analyzes how the AKP has securitized to oppress different socio-political groups and identities, according to the time and need for the party's political survival. Research in the book sheds light on the use of traumas, conspiracy theories, and fear as tools in the securitization and repression processes.Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Erdoan Shipoli is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. Mustafa Demir is a lecturer at the Department of Politics, Faculty of Arts andSocial Sciences, University of Surrey, England, UK.

Provides a holistic approach to the culture of securitization in Turkish politics Includes in-depth analysis of a number of securitized communities in Turkey Shows how repression of opposition is becoming a national security issue for Turkey