"WESTERNIZATION AND ALIENATION OF THE STATE/SOCIAL ORDER": A PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC FAIRY-TALE OF TURKISH ISLAMISTS

• Main Author: Deniz YOLDAS
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: “Francisc I. Rainer” Anthropology Institute of the Romanian Academy. 2019-09-01
• Series: Anthropological Researches and Studies
• Subjects: Küçükömer; Islamofascism; Kemalist fascism
• Online Access: http://www.journalstudiesanthropology.ro/en/westernization-and-alienation-of-the-state-social-order-a-pseudo-scientific-fairy-tale-of-turkish-islamists/a135/

Idris Küçükömer (born 1925 in Giresun, dead 1987 in Istanbul) is a well-known Turkish academic, who tried to figure out the controversial character of the Left-wing movement in Turkey. His main book “The Alienation of the State/Social Order” (in Turkish: Batılılaşma ve Düzenin Yabancılaşması, Küçükömer, 2002) is the dissertation of his principal thesis about contemporary Turkey. Küçükömer is one of the academics/intellectuals who tried to figure out the principal „anomalies” of Turkey with his own perspectives. The controversial character of Kemalism and Left-wing movement of Turkey is the subject of Küçükömer’s works. He tried not only to break out the Kemalist discourse’s falsification but also to create a pseudo-scientific theoretical base for Islamist “Green Kemalist” narration. Küçükömer’s work about the nature of bureaucracy and its transformations between different social systems could be interesting for Post-Soviet countries academic circles. The contribution of the present review is that it brings a present-day perspective on Küçükömer views.