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Protesting exile: Cretan refugee activists in the late Ottoman Empire New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Uğur Zekeriya Peçe
Focusing on the long aftermath of the July Revolution of 1908 in the Ottoman Empire, this article examines the intellectual and popular climate of protest in the context of a crisis of sovereignty over Crete. Keeping the geographical focus on İstanbul and on the regions receiving tens of thousands of civilians displaced from this Mediterranean island around the turn of the twentieth century, I discuss
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Antiquities in exile: Ottoman Greek refugees’ trauma and Ionian antiquities New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Artemis Papatheodorou
This article contributes to our understanding of the links between forced exile, refugee trauma, and antiquities. It zooms in to the case of the Ottoman Greek refugees who fled to Greece in the wake of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the defeat of the Greek army by the Turkish National Movement forces in 1922. It critically discusses memories of ordinary people from Lithri (ancient Erythrai
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Using the “proper one”: language ideology in the context of Kemalism and neo-Ottomanism New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Emre Yağlı
Düzgün Türkçe (proper Turkish) is an expression used to refer to well-formed linguistic structures and orthography. On Twitter, where the digital language is visible, language users, by employing the expression, comment on others’ spelling styles about what is “true” or “false.” In the context of Turkey’s ongoing conflict on the use of Latin scripts after Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma
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Maternal slavery and Gothic melancholy in Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan’s Vâlidem (My Mother) and Mihrünnisa Hanım’s counterpoetics New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Burcu Gürsel
Late Ottoman writers whose mothers were formerly enslaved were haunted by the mother’s arrested mourning for her lost mother/land in the Caucasus. “Intimate biofiction” by these writers – potential masters and sons of slaves – offers a unique narratorial point of view distinct from first-person slave narratives and third-person abolitionist literature. Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan’s long narrative elegy,
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Political homophobia as a tool of creating crisis narratives and ontological insecurities in illiberal populist contexts: lessons from the 2023 elections in Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Didem Unal
This article analyzes how the Justice and Development Party’s (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP) 2023 election propaganda utilized political homophobia as a populist tool to construct and reinforce political antagonisms and carry out a crisis-driven politics in search of continued hegemony. Relying on critical discourse analysis of qualitative data, it demonstrates that during the 2023 election period
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The Bulgarian connection: the Young Turks in exile and the making of radicalism in Ottoman Europe, 1895–1897 New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Ramazan Hakkı Öztan
Focusing on the years between 1895 and 1897, this article reconstructs what happened after the arrival of Young Turk revolutionaries into the cities of the Danubian hinterland, particularly centering on Rusçuk (Ruse in today’s Bulgaria). In tracing the footsteps of İbrahim Temo and Mustafa Ragıp, two self-exiled figures from İstanbul, this study captures a particular moment when the Danubian cities
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The AKP’s clientelist–machine politics and the role of Kurdish brokers: the case of Bağcılar New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 İbrahim Kuran
Although there are numerous studies showing the significance of clientelism in the electoral mobilization of the poor in Turkey, scant attention has been paid on the specific clientelistic strategies employed by the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP) among the Kurdish population in İstanbul. Addressing this gap, this study focuses on the AKP’s clientelist politics among
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Christians, Muslims, and Jews: Turkey and the management of refugees from Greece during World War II New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Alexandros Lamprou
Approximately 70,000 people were displaced from Greece to Turkey and the Middle East during World War II. Following a presentation of the geography, statistics, and timeframe of the displacement, and Turkey’s interwar demographic policies, the article studies Turkey’s management of this refugee movement. Based on Greek, Turkish, and British archival material, the article argues that Turkish wartime
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Migrants’ access to healthcare services: evidence from fieldwork in Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 H. Deniz Genç, Z. Aslı Elitsoy
This study builds on an analytical framework of access to healthcare and, using notes from interviews conducted with 110 migrants of different categories, it discusses the fit between migrant patients and Turkish health services. There is an overall mediocre fit between migrant patients and the Turkish healthcare system, which varies for different migrant groups, and is influenced by the dimensions
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“This expulsion is explained in many ways”: Ottoman Greek Orthodox internal exiles during the Great War (1914–1918) New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Charalampos Minasidis
This article investigates the Ottoman Greek Orthodox internal exiles, focusing on the deportees’ experiences and the intricacies of their agency during the Great War (1914–18). It does so by examining deportees’ understudied ego-documents, taken either from the collections of the Centre for Asia Minor Studies in Athens or from family archives. Organized into labor-battalions or housed in open internment
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Sending “our brothers” back “home”: Continuity and change in President Erdoğan’s discourse on Syrian refugees New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Kerem Morgül
Considerable research has examined Turkey’s discursive governance of the Syrian refugee crisis, identifying the central themes and metaphors in top officials’ refugee-related messages. However, since they tend to rely on qualitative analyses based on convenience or purposive samples, prior studies have failed to assess the relative frequency of these themes and fall short of reliably gauging the shifts
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The “glitch” of Rabia monuments: a semiotic analysis of July 15 monuments in Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Erdem Üngür
After the coup attempt on July 15, 2016, the Turkish state started to produce a new official history of the event as a narrative of popular resistance against a military coup for the sake of democracy. This narrative with a religious aura was supported by “democracy watch” meetings and new commemoration days, museums, and monuments across Turkey. It was based on four concepts, symbolized by the Rabia
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Islamic art and visualities of war from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Gizem Tongo, İrvin Cemil Schick
This article explores how Islamic art was produced and used in Turkey within the context of modern warfare during World War I, the War of Independence, and the nascent Republic – a subject still relatively understudied in Turkish history, as well as in international cultural histories of modern warfare and histories of modern art in the Middle East. Drawing on previously overlooked visual and textual
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Salt of the Empire: the making of an Ottoman monopoly, 1838–1881 New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Uğur Bayraktar
The present article is a study of the fiscal history of the Ottoman salt monopoly before 1881, when it was taken over by local and European creditors. It brings a novel perspective to the literature on Ottoman finances by highlighting a case of centralized collection of an indirect tax. It argues that the interplay between the government’s urge to raise indirect contributions and the consumers’ proclivity
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Gendered familialism in a Mediterranean context: women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care in Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Başak Akkan, Ayşe Buğra, Trudie Knijn
This article explores the relationship between women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Turkey within a broader Mediterranean context. Since the 1990s, there have been significant changes in the familialist models in the Mediterranean region driven by women’s increased labor market participation and the expansion of ECEC services. The transformations in the
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On land, memory, and masculinity: unearthing silences around myths of Gallipoli in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Hülya Adak, Murat Akser
This article offers a critical reading of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Ahlat Ağacı (The Wild Pear Tree) through an exploration and critique of the mythmaking and monumentalization surrounding the Gallipoli Battle and the multiple ways in which Ceylan’s film unsettles the foundational myths of the last century in Turkey. Ceylan’s scenes and characters are constructed in such a way that the male characters and
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“Invisible sisters, invincible brothers:” tracing masculine domination within the Turkish left New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 H. Bahadır Türk
A Bourdieusian analysis of gender relations within political organizations is highly instructive. This kind of analysis might provide insight into the intertwinement of gender and politics by illuminating the construction process of gendered political identities. Drawing upon memoirs written by the members of the left-wing organizations in Turkey and interviews conducted with them, this article argues
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From resolution to resecuritization: populist communication of the AKP’s Kurdish peace process in Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Pinar Dinc, Ozge Ozduzen
This article contributes to the existing literature on the populist online communication of governments. We look at the role of the micro-blogging social media platform Twitter under the authoritarian rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the wider Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP) during the peace process. We carried out a rhetorical analysis of the Twitter posts
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Correlates of deforestation in Turkey: evidence from high-resolution satellite data New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Fatih Serkant Adiguzel
During the last decade, environmental issues have gained saliency in Turkish politics, especially after the 2013 Gezi Park demonstrations. This article is on the relationship between politics and deforestation in Turkey. It combines possible major drivers—political, economic, and climatic—of deforestation in Turkey with high-resolution satellite data on deforestation to conduct a systemic empirical
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Toward a green income support policy: investigating social and fiscal alternatives for Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Berna Dogan, Hasan Tekgüç, Alp Erinç Yeldan
The limited success of employment-based social protection measures under the diverging patterns of post-COVID-19 recovery rekindled interest in a social policy framework known as the Basic Income (BI) support. We test the potential of the BI program using five alternative scenarios ranging from households with income less than half of median income to all adults with estimates of their respective fiscal
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Unfolding macroprudential mechanisms: central bank-led mechanisms during the post-Global Financial Crisis Turkish experience New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Sinan Akgünay
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 was followed by an increased volatility in capital flows, posing considerable macro-financial risks, especially for emerging markets. Turkey addressed these macro-financial risks between 2010 and 2011. Principal decision makers at the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey took policy actions by introducing policy mixes that trigger causal mechanisms informing the
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Expanding the boundaries of the local: entrepreneurial municipalism and migration governance in Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Saime Özçürümez, Julinda Hoxha
This study investigates why and how entrepreneurial municipalism is manifested in the case of Turkey despite limited local government autonomy and capacity in the area of migration governance. This article suggests four entrepreneurial strategies to understand and explain the variation in municipal practices: local networking, community engagement, organizational adaptation, and city branding. The
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Contested masculinities and political imaginations in “New Turkey” and Çukur as authoritarian spaces of protection New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Ergin Bulut, Zeynep Serinkaya Winter
Initially known as “the Turkish Godfather,” Turkish TV series Çukur (2017–2021) occasionally received criticism from government ministers and the government’s media regulatory board. This was surprising because Turkey’s and Çukur’s cultural universes converged around the masculinist protection of family and territory. So, why this political backlash despite the convergence? Wouldn’t that convergence
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Textual manifestations of Ottoman architectural revival and the search for a national idiom in the late Ottoman period New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Ahmet Erdem Tozoğlu
This article applies a critical approach to rethinking the relationship between nationalism and Ottoman architectural historiography by examining the intellectual medium during the late Ottoman period. More precisely, it examines how the history and theory of Ottoman architecture were initially established by Tanzimat (Reform) intelligentsia with the publication of Usûl-i Mimâri-i Osmani (Fundamentals
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The motherhood wage penalty in Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Hayriye Özgül Özkan Değirmenci
Women with children, on average, earn lower wages than those who do not have children. This is called the “motherhood wage penalty”. This study provides estimates of the wage penalty for working mothers in Turkey using the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS), 2014–2018. The gross wage penalty is 21.3 percent, but it is entirely explained by human capital variables: education, marital status
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Impact of elderly care on “sandwiched-generation” women in Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Özge İzdeş Terkoğlu, Emel Memiş
The aging population and, along with it, increasing long-term care needs create pressure globally on the social and health care spending of governments under the constraint of shrinking tax bases. The common tendency of governments is to minimize the cost by transferring the elderly care burden to families. However, care provision comes with penalties for caretakers in the form of potential income
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The evolution of unprocessed food inflation in Turkey: an exploratory study on select products New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Serkan Demirkılıç, Gökhan Özertan, Hasan Tekgüç
Food price increases stem from economic, agricultural, and political factors. Understanding the dynamics behind the food price formation process and assessing how potential factors contribute to food price changes will significantly affect policies formulated to manage food price increases. High food inflation rates have been a chronic problem in Turkey over the last decade, with unprocessed food prices
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The European Union as a destination of Turkish migrants in 2008–2018 New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Selda Dudu, Teresa Rojo
In the 1950s and 1960s, Europe was a popular migration destination for Turkish people due to its employment opportunities. Today, however, these labor market drivers of migration destinations in the EU-28 have been superseded. This article empirically investigates the drivers of the migration destinations of Turkish newcomers to EU countries between 2008–2018. It contributes to the literature by focusing
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Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay, Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. xviii + 324 pp. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Ozancan Bozkurt
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Christopher Houston. Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup D’état, and Memory in Turkey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. 242 pp. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Azat Zana Gündoğan
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Alienated imagination through a mega development project in Turkey: the case of the Osman Gazi Bridge New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Deniz S. Sert, Umut Kuruüzüm
Since the rise of the ruling Justice and Development Party in the early 2000s, Turkey has invested in several mega transport and infrastructure projects for the purposes of economic transformation, growth, and development. This article explores the impact of a recently completed mega-project—the Osman Gazi Bridge—on material change and popular imagination about the future. It claims that, while the
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Ian Almond. World Literature Decentered: Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal. New York: Routledge, 2022. xiv + 249 pp. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Çimen Günay-Erkol
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The return of children: a comparative study on the contemporary Turkish and Irish novel New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Meltem Gürle
In Infancy and History Agamben (1993) suggests, following Benjamin’s footsteps, that true experience is only possible in infancy, a time that has not yet been expropriated by the bareness of modern life. The kind of potentiality that he attributes to infancy signifies the emergence of a new self, which, rather than moving into the mechanical domain of “work,” prefers to remain in the creative territory
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Trine Stauning Willert, The New Ottoman Greece in History and Fiction. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, xiii + 223 pp. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Filiz Çoban Oran
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The long and bitter fall: an account of events that shook the Turkish economy during September–December 2021 New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Fikret Şenses
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Christine M. Philliou, Turkey: A Past Against History. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021, xii + 278 pages. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Kutluğhan Soyubol
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Basic income and its applicability in Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Senem Çakmak Şahin, İbrahim Engin Kılıç
In search of justice in income distribution and easy access to necessities by everyone, basic income (BI) has become one of the main topics of conversation. However, there is no comprehensive study on the cost and effect of BI in Turkey. This study aims to set a theoretical framework for BI, compare different views on the topic, evaluate implementations from the world, and analyze the feasibility of
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A new perspective on women’s care burden and employment in Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-11 Çisel Ekiz Gökmen
Women’s intra-household care burden is one of the main reasons behind women’s low employment rates in Turkey. Many empirical studies have tested this relationship by focusing on the existence of dependent household members, if any. They have largely overlooked the use of care services and the time spent on caring for dependent household members to evaluate women’s care burden. The purpose of this study
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Sixty years of migration from Turkey: postmigrant reflections on urban development New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Erol Yildiz
Ten years ago, the anniversary of fifty years of migration from Turkey to Germany was marked and celebrated: conferences were organized, there were discussion rounds and exhibitions. This year we are marking sixty years of migration from Turkey, and again various events are planned. Yet one gets the impression that the relevance of Turkish migration for social transformation—and above all for urban
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Remembering Mehmet Genç (1934–2021), economic historian of the Ottoman Empire New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Şevket Pamuk
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In pursuit of intellectual discovery: an interview with Michael E. Meeker New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Ali Sipahi
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Sule Can, Refugee Encounters at the Turkish-Syrian Border. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2020, xvi + 154 pages. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Maissam Nimer
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Avi Rubin, Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial: The Yıldız Case. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2018, xviii + 226 pages. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Burak Onaran
which scholars and politicians Yavuz is referring to. Moreover, the fact that the term does not have an established Turkish translation equivalent calls for elaboration. I also find it difficult to believe that Ziya Gökalp was “one of Atatürk’s right-hand men” (p. 41). The Turkish War of Independence lasted until 1922 and Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk from 1934) was primarily a military leader up until then
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Elif M. Babül, Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017, xiv + 230 pages New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Şerif Onur Bahçecik
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Neo-Ottomanism and Cool Japan in comparative perspective New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Murat Ergin, Chika Shinohara
Turkey and Japan have comparable histories of modernization beginning in the nineteenth century. They have since then produced modernities that are considered a mix of “Eastern” and “Western.” Over recent decades, both faced the question of what comes after modernity and began manufacturing their versions of authenticities and cultural exports. This paper comparatively locates two symptoms of this
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The Ottoman Empire, the United States, and the legal battle over extradition: the “Kelly affair” New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Berna Kamay
This article examines extradition in nineteenth-century Ottoman diplomacy by exploring an illustrative legal conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the United States. The Kelly affair, which revolved around the murder of an Ottoman subject by an American sailor in Smyrna (Izmir) in 1877, sparked a diplomatic dispute that lasted for several decades. The controversy stemmed from conflicting interpretations
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Onur İşçi, Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II: Diplomacy, Discord and International Relations. London: I.B. Tauris 2019, xi + 241 pages. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Dilek Barlas
This book investigates the crucible of Soviet–Turkish relations during World War II when a renewed fear of Russia (with a distinctly anti-Soviet spin) returned to the forefront of Turkish politics (p. 2). In fact, the book makes an important contribution to the analysis of Turkish–Soviet relations during World War II, which is an under-researched topic, using the archival documents of both countries
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Remembering hope: mediated queer futurity and counterpublics in Turkey’s authoritarian times New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Yener Bayramoğlu
This article explores how hope and visions of the future have left their mark on media discourse in Turkey. Looking back at some of the events that took place in the 1980s, a decade that was shaped by the aftermath of the 1980 coup d’état, and considering them alongside what has happened since the ban of Istanbul’s Pride march in 2015, it examines traces of hope in two periods of recent Turkish history
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Salih Can Açıksöz. Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020, xxiv + 246 pages. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Hazal Hürman
future holds. Başcı adeptly demonstrates that cinema has the power to defy official narratives and disturb conventional accounts of identity and history while constructing a new public discourse through the depiction of the suppressed. Social Trauma and Telecinematic Memory reminds us of the refreshing notion that cinema has the power to rewrite history. Despite the all-pervading authority of official
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Harry Harootunian , The Unspoken Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019, xii + 179 pages. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Ronald Grigor Suny
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From “notable Syrians” to “ordinary Anatolians”: the politics of “normalization” and the experience of exile during World War I New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-12 M. Talha Çiçek
This article examines an important attempt at the political engineering undertaken in Syria during the Great War. It focuses on the experience of the Arabs exiled to Anatolia by Cemal Pasha to redesign Syrian society in line with the Committee of Union and Progress’ idea of empire, which imagined an authoritarian regime. The members of the Arabist parties were removed from Syria to eliminate their
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M. Hakan Yavuz. Nostalgia for the Empire: Politics of Neo-Ottomanism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xviii + 318 pp. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Einar Wigen
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Sexuality politics on the football field: queering the field in Turkey New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Deniz Nihan Aktan
Focusing on queer-identified amateur football teams, this article investigates the potentials of the mobilities and alliances of gender non-conforming footballing people to disrupt the seemingly effortless structure of the football field. While football is arguably one of the sports with the strongest discriminatory attitudes toward gender non-conforming people, it has also become a site of resistance
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Pelin Başcı, Social Trauma and Telecinematic Memory: Imagining the Turkish Nation since the 1980 Coup. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, xiii + 340 pages. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 U. Ceren Ünlü
interactions, if we are to follow Sennett’s conceptualization – among inhabitants. While the book delicately illustrates the ways in which anxieties have been processed through varying visual strategies predicated on and revolving around loss and nostalgia, it is not equally clear how these strategies have reinforced the possibilities that might be born out of such encounters. Istanbul, Open City presents
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Burnt by the sun: disaggregating temperature’s current and future impact on mortality in the Turkish context New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 Ilhan Can Özen
Our study plans to quantify the effect of higher temperatures on different critical Turkish health outcomes mainly to chart future developments and to identify locations in Turkey that may be potential vulnerable hotspots. The general structure of the temperature mortality function was estimated with different fixed-level effects, with a specific focus on the mortality effect of maximum apparent temperature
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Hanna L. Muehlenhoff, EU Democracy Promotion and Governmentality: Turkey and Beyond. New York: Routledge, 2019. xii + 173 pp. New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Pelin Sönmez
The European Union (EU) has always been dominated by liberal policies, however the rise of neoliberal tendencies in European states has been reflected in EU governance as well. The Open Method of Coordination introduced by the Lisbon Treaty is cited as a good example to show neoliberal governmentality in the EU by incorporating many actors such as civil society and private actors into decision-making
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İpek Türeli, Istanbul, Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity. London and New York: Routledge, 2018, xiii + 169 pages New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Fırat Genç
İpek Türeli’s Istanbul, Open City is a well-timed addition to the recent body of work produced on urban space and life in Turkey. Placing visual cultural analysis in dialogue with urban history and breaking with conventional modes of periodization, the book provides a fresh look at Istanbul, a city which understandably looms large within the field of urban studies. It approaches head-on the ways in
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Turkey’s Queer Times New Perspectives on Turkey (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Cenk Özbay, Kerem Öktem
Today Turkey is one of the few Muslim-majority countries in which same-sex sexual acts, counternormative sexual identities, and expressions of gender nonconformism are not illegal, yet are heavily constrained and controlled by state institutions, police forces, and public prosecutors. For more than a decade Turkey has been experiencing a “queer turn”—an unprecedented push in the visibility and empowerment