The end of the Cold War triggered religious identity revival in Turkey.

Evidence

First, for Turkey, as for so many other counties, the end of the Cold War, together with the dislocations generated by social and economic development, raised major issues of “national identity and ethnic identification,” and religion was there to provide an answer. The secular heritage of Ataturk and of the Turkish elite for two-thirds of a century came increasingly under fire. The experience of Turks abroad tended to stimulate Islamist sentiments at home. Turks coming back from West Germany “reacted to hostility there by falling back on what was familiar. And that was Islam.” — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 400

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s broader thesis about civilizational identity filling the vacuum left by ideology after the Cold War.