The Welfare Party's Municipal Track Record: Evaluating Islamist Municipal Activism in Turkey

Following the March 1994 municipal elections, Turkish mayors elected from the Islamist Welfare Party injected their ultra-conservative morality into the daily life of the cities they governed, while making improvements in municipal services. They also did not prove to be immune to the kind of corrup...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Middle East journal 1999-01, Vol.53 (1), p.75-94
1. Verfasser:	AKINCI, U
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Activism Cities City halls Coal Conservatism Corruption Coups d'etat Elections Government and politics Islam and politics Islamism Kurds in Turkey Local elections Mayors Morality Municipal services Municipalities Muslims Parliaments Political activism Political leadership Political parties Political sociology Political systems, parties and institutions Politics Pragmatism Radicalism Secularization Sociology Statues Turkey Voters Voting
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Zusammenfassung:	Following the March 1994 municipal elections, Turkish mayors elected from the Islamist Welfare Party injected their ultra-conservative morality into the daily life of the cities they governed, while making improvements in municipal services. They also did not prove to be immune to the kind of corruption which plagued their secular predecessors. Thus in the 1999 elections they will have a harder time winning "reaction votes," since they are no longer an unknown quantity. The disappointment of ethnic-Kurdish voters is another obstacle that Islamist mayors will have to cope with in the next elections.
ISSN:	0026-3141 1940-3461