This study explores the link between religious identity and conflict in contemporary Turkey by examining the dramatic reversals in the relations between the country’s two prominent Islamic social forces, the ruling party AKP and the Gülen Organization. It shows how a particular trajectory of power and identity between the two religious forces transformed into a brutal security competition in the Turkish society and polity. It puts the analytical foci on the following puzzle: how did the Gülen community — once a confidential ally of AKP — turn into a coup plotter in the Turkish military to bring down the elected government? In order to explore the puzzle, the study offers significant departures from the standard approaches to religious identity and conflict by employing a distinct concept — the inter‐societal security dilemma.

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了解2016年7月的军事政变：土耳其的当代安全困境

这项研究通过考察该国两个重要的伊斯兰社会力量，执政党AKP和古兰组织之间的戏剧性逆转，探索了当代土耳其的宗教认同与冲突之间的联系。它显示了两种宗教力量之间特定的权力和身份轨迹如何转变为土耳其社会和政体的残酷安全竞赛。它把分析的焦点放在了以下难题上：曾经是AKP机密盟友的Gülen社区如何变成土耳其军队的政变策划者，推翻了民选政府？为了探索这个难题，该研究通过采用一种独特的概念-社会间安全困境，大大偏离了宗教认同和冲突的标准方法。