The Trend of Islamism in Turkey and the Future of Political Islam

Political Islam is a description used for the Islamic intellectual-political movement among other titles. Political Islam is a discourse concentrating on Islamic identity in the canon of political actions. With regard to upheavals in the Middle East and the extension of Islamic Awakening in Arabic and regional countries as well as the development of political Islam in Turkey, the study of processes and advances in the future of political Islam seems necessary and significant. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of futurology of political Islam in Turkey via the qualitative method and interviews with elites. Analyzing the findings of the research indicated that propellants of political Islam in turkey include 12 cases: class conflict and economic decline, state legitimacy crisis; the crisis of culture and modernization, the religious, ethnic and Islamist growth in population growth and civil society development, expansion and deepening of secularism in society; the International variables; the impact of the Iranian revolution, social change macroeconomic and structural factors; Özalism and weakening radical Kemalism, political upheavals and changes in the balance of powers; the emergence of the AKP and promotion of democracy. The results of the study confirms the hypothesis and considers the mean scores of views higher than 3 (m >3) according to qualitative interviews with elites and their answers and indicated that the future of political Islam in Turkey with regard to the existence of propellants of Islamist groups will be established more strongly with ethnic stability conditions beside ethnic challenges and Laicism. This hypothesis is positive on the upper limit and negative on the lower limit at the significant level 95% (5% error) and the observed error as 0.070 which is higher than 0.05. Therefore, the research hypothesis is confirmed.