The impact of Islamic Revolution of Iran on Islamism in Turkey

Islamism in Turkey has gone through various ebbs and flows over the past century. Yet and in spite of many hurdles and problems, Islamism has grown daybyday in Turkey to the extent that, in a country with a secular political and legal framework, an Islamic political party has acceded to power and maintained it over a relatively long period.The rise and flourishing of Islamism in Turkey has been a result of various influences, a salient one of which being the victory of Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979. This analysis is an attempt to answer the question that, since Ataturk's time, what impact the victory of Islamic Revolution of Iran has had on the growth of Islamism and subsequent Islamic movements in Turkey. Our findings suggest that Iran's Islamic revolution seems to have made an indirect impact on the revival, identity formation, and mobilization of Islamic groups in Turkey and has also given particular momentum to the Islamic movement in that country.