The Diyanet of Turkey and Its Activities in Eurasia after the Cold War
Journal: Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (Hokkaido University)
Year: 2010

The collapse of the Eastern Bloc started a new process for all believers who lived in Eurasia, be they Muslims or not. It was unprecedented in Islamic history that Muslims were forced to choose which road to travel and what method to adopt when their society reemerged from an extended period of oppression by atheist regimes. In Eurasia, there already exist Muslim societies that have established a sound and permanent structure for handling relations between religion and politics, religious admini