Citation

Orhan M. Turk. Stud. 2010; 11(2): 143.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/14683849.2010.483846

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article studies an al-Qaeda action group founded around 2000 in Turkey. This group constructed a small autonomous movement outside larger social and political structures of power and action in Bingoumll, a Kurdish town. The new form of the group's radicalism, with its local and global instruments of socialization and its repertoire of violence, produced organizational, strategic, axiological, and teleological ruptures with traditional Islamist movements in the region.