| Turkey's July 15th Coup Utah Series in Middle East Studies Editors Yavuz and Balcı are among the first international scholars to have studied the movement from its nascent stages in Turkey. The volume's contributors include scholars who have researched the movement in Turkey, Central Asia, and the Balkans. The result is a comprehensive, timely assessment of numerous dimensions of Gülenist activities, including its social and political networks and the institutions that supported the movement as it became a major economic and educational force in Turkey and elsewhere. This volume reflects exchanges among scholars who having studied the Gülenists, assembled to discuss how and why the movement became belligerent opponents of Erdoğan's government, and it addresses questions such as how this major, still continuing disruption in Turkey's politics will affect not only the future of the movement but also that of Turkey's embattled democracy as well. M. Hakan Yavuz is professor of political science at the University of Utah. He has published widely on Islam, nationalism, the Kurdish question, and modern Turkish politics. Bayram Balcı is a researcher at the Centre for Research and International Studies (CERI-Sciences Po) in Paris. From 2006 to 2010 he was the director of the French Institute of Central-Asian Studies (IFEAC) in Tashkent, and from 2012 to 2014 he was a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. |