Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
EGE ACADEMIC REVIEW, cilt.13, ss.539-554, 2013 (Hakemli Dergi)
The temporal in the kemalist content, resulted from the positivist ideology, especially as it relatedto the kemalist principle of
secularism during the single party period. Consequently, even
though the Ottoman “theocracy” had been a special case, the
kemalist content in its opposition to the Ottoman State, opposed as well the spiritual element in public sphere. The reintegration of liberal Islam in public corresponded on the other
hand,tokemalismbeing transformed. The article proposes that
the kemalism as a process could transform in relationship to
different historical contexts. In turn, the accommodation of
the kemalist content in between the temporal and the spiritual depended on kemalism’s getting reinterpreted. This,while
attributed a new role model to Turkey on the international
scene, obeyed nevertheless the status of religion since the
Ottoman Empireas submitted to State. The article concludes
that kemalist accommodation to the spiritual has only been
possiblewithin the reinterpretation of kemalism because the
kemalist ideology, as an open ended process, permitted it.