The Making of Modern Turkey


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Textbook providing a thorough assessment of the political, social and economic processes which led to the formation of a new Turkey; socio-economic change is emphasised throughout.







The Politics of Modern Turkey


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VOLUME IV MAJOR ISSUES AND THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY TURKISH POLITICS PART 19 Democratization, politics of EU membership process 1 (82) Turkish political parties and the EU discourse in the post-Helsinki period: a case of Europeanization 3 (21) Gamze Avcı Turkey, Europe, and paradoxes of identity: perspectives on the international context of democratization 24 (25) Ziya Öniş The intellectual roots of anti-European sentiments in Turkish politics: the case of radical Turkish nationalism 49 (21) Nergis Canefe Tanıl Bora Europeanization in Turkey: trigger or anchor for reform? 70 (13) Nathalie Tocci PART 20 Identity issues 1: Religiosity and the rising salience of pro-Islamist movements 83 (142) Group-differentiated rights and the liberal democratic state: rethinking the headscarf controversy in Turkey 85 (14) Yeşim Arat Patronage, party, and state: the politicization of Islam in Turkey 99 (19) Sencer Ayata The conflictual agendas of neo-liberal reconstruction and the rise of Islamic politics in Turkey: the hazards of rewriting modernity 118 (23) Faruk Birtek Binnaz Toprak Religiosity, support for Seriat and evaluations of secularist public policies in Turkey 141 (26) Ali Çarkoğlu Transformation of Islamic political identity in Turkey: rethinking the West and westernization 167 (20) İhsan Dağı Secularism and Islamism in Turkey: the making of elites and counter-elites 187 (15) Nilüfer Göle The Turkish state and Alevis: changing parameters of an uneasy relationship 202 (17) Bedriye Poyraz Political Alevism versus political Sunnism: convergences and divergences 219 (6) Ruşen Çakır PART 21 Identity issues 2: Ethnicity and politics of Kurdish minority 225 (54) The Kurdish question and Turkey’s Justice and Development Party 227 (20) M. Hakan Yavuz Nihat Ali Özcan Citizenship and ethnicity in Turkey 247 (17) Mesut Yeğen The People’s Democracy Party 264 (15) Aylin Güney PART 22 Identity issues 3: Women in Turkish politics 279 (16) From emancipation to liberation: the changing role of women in Turkey’s public realm 281 (14) Yesim Arat PART 23 Policy-making, political economic interactions, patronage 295 (103) Politics, society and financial liberalization: Turkey in the 1990s 297 (28) Ümit Cizre-Sakallıoğlu Erinc Yeldan Double-faced state: political patronage and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey 325 (19) Metin Heper E. Fuat Keyman Domestic politics versus global dynamics: towards a political economy of the 2000 and 2001 financial crises in Turkey 344 (29) Ziya Öniş Political economy of agricultureal reforms in Turkey 373 (25) Mine Eder Index 398




The Politics of Modern Turkey: Major issues and themes in contemporary Turkish politics


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A newly written introduction opens this collection, which brings together nearly seventy pieces of canonical and cutting-edge research covering all aspects of politics in Turkey from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the application for EU membership, a period of about eighty years representing one of the most dramatic modernization drives in any nation. Among issues covered are: secularism, democracy, US/Russian/Middle East/Turkish foreign policy issues, and the role of women in Turkish ...




Contemporary Turkey in Conflict


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New perspectives on ethnic relations, Islam and neoliberalism have emerged in Turkey since the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002. Placing the period within its historical and contemporary context, Tahir Abbas argues that what it is to be ethnically, religiously and culturally Turkish has been transformed. He explores how issues of political trust, social capital and intolerance towards minorities have characterised Turkey in the early years of the 21st-century. He shows how a radical neoliberal economic and conservative outlook has materialised, leading to a clash over the religious, political and cultural direction of Turkey. These conflicts are defining the future of the nation.




The Army and the Radical Left in Turkey


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In 1960s Turkey, the armed forces and the radical leftist movement provided two very dynamic, but very different, political forces. However, somewhat surprisingly, the majority of radical leftists believed in the revolutionary potential of the armed forces in overthrowing the current regime and replacing it with a quasi-socialist one. This book considers the changing perspectives of the radical leftist movement towards the political role of the military in Turkey. Using a textual analysis of different leftist groups, including the Communist Party of Turkey, Ozgur Mutlu Ulus describes the development of the leftist movement in Turkey after the 1960 coup and explains why most leftists chose to encourage a military revolution, which they hoped would bring about the triumph of socialism in Turkey.




The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics


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The study of politics in Turkey : new horizons and perennial pitfalls / Güneş Murat Tezcür -- Democratization theories and Turkey / Ekrem Karakoç -- Ruling ideologies in modern Turkey / Kerem Öktem -- Constitutionalism in Turkey / Aslı Ü. Bâli -- Civil-military relations and the demise of Turkish democracy / Nil S. Satana and Burak Bilgehan Özpek -- Capturing secularism in Turkey : the ease of comparison / Murat Akan -- The political economy of Turkey since the end of World War II / Şevket Pamuk -- Neoliberal politics in Turkey / Sinan Erensü and Yahya M. Madra -- The politics of welfare in Turkey / Erdem Yörük -- The political economy of environmental policymaking in Turkey : a vicious cycle / Fikret Adaman, Bengi Akbulut, and Murat Arsel -- The politics of energy in Turkey : running engines on geopolitical, discursive, and coercive power / Begüm Özkaynak, Ethemcan Turhan, and Cem İskender Aydın -- The contemporary politics of health in Turkey : diverse actors, competing frames, and uneven policies / Volkan Yılmaz -- Populism in Turkey : historical and contemporary patterns / Yüksel Taşkın -- Old and new polarizations and failed democratizations in Turkey / Murat Somer -- Economic voting during the AKP era in Turkey / S. Erdem Aytaç -- Party organizations in Turkey and their consequences for democracy / Melis G. Laebens -- The evolution of conventional political participation in Turkey / Ersin Kalaycıoğlu -- Symbolic politics and contention in the Turkish Republic / Senem Aslan -- Islamist activism in Turkey / Menderes Çınar -- The Kurdish movement in Turkey : understanding everyday perceptions and experiences / Dilan Okcuoglu -- The Transnational Mobilization of the Alevis of Turkey : from invisibility to the struggle for equality / Ceren Lord -- Politics of asylum seekers and refugees in Turkey : limits and prospects of populism / Fatih Resul Kılınç and Şule Toktaş -- A theoretical account of Turkish foreign policy under the AKP / Tarık Oğuzlu -- US-Turkey relations since WWII : from alliance to transactionalism / Serhat Güvenç and Soli Özel -- Turkey and Europe : historical asynchronicities and perceptual asymmetries / Hakan Yılmaz -- Turkey's foreign policy in the Middle East : an identity perspective / Lisel Hintz -- Turkey and Russia : historical patterns and contemporary trends in bilateral relations / Evren Balta and Mitat Çelikpala -- Citizenship and protest behavior in Turkey / Ayhan Kaya -- Gender politics and the struggle for equality in Turkey / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat -- Human rights organizations in Turkey / Başak Çalı -- Truth, justice, and commemoration initiatives in Turkey / Onur Bakiner -- The politics of media in Turkey : chronicle of a stillborn media system / Sarphan Uzunoğlu -- The AKP's rhetoric of rule in Turkey : political melodramas of conspiracy from "ergenekon" to "mastermind" / Erdağ Göknar -- The transformation of political cinema in Turkey since the 1960s : a change of discourse / Zeynep Çetin-Erus and M. Elif Demoğlu -- Political music in Turkey : the birth and diversification of dissident and conformist music (1920-2000) / Mustafa Avcı.




The Rise of Turkey


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Turkey is positioned to become the twenty-first centuryÆs first Muslim power. Based on a dynamic economy and energetic foreign policy, TurkeyÆs growing engagement with other countries has made it a key player in the newly emerging multidirectional world order. TurkeyÆs trade patterns and societal interaction with other nations have broadened and deepened dramatically in the past decade, transforming Turkey from a Cold War outpost into a significant player internationally. TurkeyÆs ascendance and the changes that have taken place under the leadership of TurkeyÆs Muslim conservative government have prompted its policymakers to craft a new vision of their role in twenty-first-century society. This developing worldview animates TurkeyÆs desire to sometimes take the lead with its co-religionists and occasionally challenge its partners in the West, while showing no inclination to become an irresponsible rising power. If it can consolidate liberal democracy at home, Turkey could also assume the role of serving as an example for the newly emerging governments brought about by the Arab Spring. The cornerstone of TurkeyÆs rise has been the governmentÆs ability to foster stable political conditions for economic growth, alongside a foreign policy that balances TurkeyÆs Muslim identity with its Western overlay, including its strong ties to the United States. Accordingly, policies that could tarnish TurkeyÆs reputation as a bastion of stability risk undermining its position between Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. This realization has been the catalyst for Ankara's careful management of Eastern and Western desires and expectations. The result is a new Turkey: a twenty-first-century Muslim power that promotes stability without the confines of a regional, European rubric.