Political Islam has gained heightened visibility in recent decades in Turkey. Large numbers of female students have begun to demonstrate their commitment by wearing the banned Islamic headdress on university campuses, and influential pro-Islamist TV channels have proliferated. This paper focuses on the Welfare ( Refah ) Party as the foremost institutional representative of political Islam in Turkey.
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Haldun Gülalp (2001) studied this question.