Abstract:

Violence and terror impose themselves as undeniable realities in this century to the extent never experienced in human history. It is known that especially some radical structures and terrorist organizations instrumentalize various beliefs, particularly Islam, as a strategy of legitimizing and expanding their fields of action. However, the explanations provided for radicalization, which are based on a sterilized reason, and confined to certain well well-defined geographies are insufficient to understand it. Terrorism and radicalism are concurrently influenced by many factors, ranging from individual socio-psychological factors to many others such as political, ideological, economic, cultural etc. Because the situation is influenced by many factors, it needs to be examined comprehensively. Thus, such an examination necessitates an interdisciplinary approach, i.e. working on diverse social sciences such as on sociology, politics and international relations together. Today, the modern manifestations of pro-violence radicalization are experienced. With an understanding developed in the form of a political ideology, Islam is used in conjunction with various terrorist acts that have become a threat which have social, economic, and political effects on the global level. Considering this fact in this study, the analysis of the sociological basis of this reality will be discussed within the context of the approaches to violence and terrorism and the reasons for radicalism.

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