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Especially the concepts of Islamic/Islamist/jihadist terror which gained an important place on the world agenda after the 9/11 attack can be regarded as concrete indicators of the link between Islam and terrorism. However, jihad, translated as "Holy War" and considered as a legitimizing element of terrorism in Islam in most orientalist sources, is a legitimate defense tool in accordance with today's international law when evaluated in the context of Islamic religion. This study intends to examine politically that whether Islam and its jihad element genuinely support terrorism, or not? It does not include the analysis of the literature on jihad and terrorism. In this study, the concept of jihad has been studied only in its own resources and historical context and then the results compared with the conceptual content of terrorism. The point to be reached thus is to establish the existence or absence of a link between jihad and terrorism, if there is one. The concepts of jihad and terrorism in this paper have been examined in terms of content, cause, element and type. At the same time, differences between them are listed in ten points. It has been claimed that it doesn't make terrorism jihad when terrorists are labeled as Muslims or being Muslims; also it doesn't make terrorists "champions of Islam / mujahid". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globalization in political respect is described with dissociation of national state and sovereignty in particular and increase in effectiveness of supra-national forms affecting this process directly. In addition to this, power loss of ideologies and giving their places to micro identities and identity policies are also shown as effect of globalization on political field. It is inevitable that political parties founded by people gathering in circle of a certain ideology or program for the purpose of power grab by using legal methods, do not undergo a semantic change during globalization process. National field where political parties make their presence felt, democratic field where they act, public field where they create agenda and the most importantly political base have come face to face with global effects. In this study, it is examined the effects of globalization process on political party-the leader relation. In this respect, it is examined firstly the conception related to political party-the leader relation of modernity which dominated in pre-globalization process. Then, it is mentioned about transformation that globalization created by investigating modernity via postmodernism, and changing dimensions of political party-the leader relation within this transformation. This study lays emphasize on that leaders have become a power center more and more in political party-the leader relation with the transformation of political conceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]