2020/06/24 by Ahmet Bekmen, Ferit Serkan Öngel, Vedi R. Hadiz · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Turkey's Politics and Society #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Social Policy and Reform Studies
paper · doi:10.1177/0896920520934171
openalex publication_date 2020/06/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This article examines transition in Kocaeli, an industrial city in the north-western part of Turkey, away from left-wing politics and trade unionism in the early 1970s, and toward Islamic politics from the mid-1990s onwards. It does do by investigating the ideological, political, and social transformation of the working class. Based on fieldwork involving in-depth, semistructured interviews conducted with current and former workers and trade union leaders, the article analyzes the various aspects of, and limits to, the hegemonic relationships between workers and left-wing politics on the one hand, and with Islamic politics, on the other.