Naqshibandis, Nurcu Community, Suleymancı Community, ;skenderpasa Community, Policies of the Özal era 

Master Thesis - Yüksek Lisans Tezi 

This thesis aims to provide a preliminary investigation and evaluation of the
main Islamic Communities’ (namely Nurcu, Süleymancı and ;skenderpasa
Communities) re-organization during the post 1980 coup era. This thesis argues that
these Islamist Communities became more active in this period in the political and
socio-economic spheres. Thus, the tendency to link the current political and
economic structures of these communities to their early organizations will be
questioned. While doing this, their organizations before the coup, during the coup
administration, and in the Özal era are going to be analyzed, in chronological order.
The organization in this thesis includes these Communities’ activities in the political,
economic and media spheres. Their re-organizations in the post coup era, in these
fields will be analyzed comparatively. Hence, this thesis further aims to find out the
possible relations between this increasing level of activities of the Communities and
the political and economic policies of the governments.
These aims will be realized through the investigation of the State and Military
reports on these Communities, the secondary sources written on them, a close
reading of these communities’ own journals and Newspapers and an investigation of
their economic institutions.