Ulusaşırı siyasi hareketten Avrupalılaşmış Müslüman bir sivil toplum kuruluşuna: İslam Toplumu Millî Görüş (IGMG)

The Milli Görüş (National Vision) movement in Germany was founded in 1969 around a mosque in Braunschweig and named the Turkish Union Germany (Almanya Türk Birliği, Türkische Union Deutschland e. V.). It was renamed the Union of the Millî Görüş in Europe (Avrupa Millî Görüş Teşkilatları, AMGT) in 1985 and finally Islamische Gemeinschaft Milli Görüş (The Islamic Community Millî Görüş, IGMG) in 1995. With the IGMG period, Milli Görüş in Germany underwent a remarkable transformation at the leadership level in terms of both personnel and vision. Based on the transnational migration literature, the research question of my thesis is about how the organization has been transformed since the mid-1990s with the establishment of the IGMG. My research has found three main factors effective in this transformation: the IGMG's strengthening and weakening transnational connections with Turkey (including its providing human resources and financial assistance to the Turkish Milli Görüş, institutional pressures on the Milli Görüş in both Turkey and Germany, and the bankruptcy of the "Islamic" holding companies), the generational shift in IGMG's management, and the impact of German institutional strategies (including the accusations against the IGMG and the IGMG's responses to them). The thesis concludes that the IGMG been transformed from a political movement to a Europeanized Muslim NGO with the impact of these factors. Main methods used in the research include document analysis, interview, archival research, and participant observation. Thus, this thesis hopes to make a contribution to the study of Islamic movements in Europe as well as the transnational migration literature.