Reflections On The Centenary Of The Republic Of Turkey

Author : Paul Kubicek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003836841

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Reflections on the Centenary of the Republic of Turkey by Paul Kubicek Pdf

This book provides both a retrospective and prospective look at Turkey on the occasion of the country’s centenary. It covers numerous important issues, including political, economic, and cultural development, the role and performance of political institutions, and foreign policy and Turkey’s place in its region and the wider world. The Republic of Turkey’s centenary in 2023 is an opportune time to assess the country’s achievements and shortcomings as well as look ahead as to how Turkey may cope with current challenges. This volume, comprised of empirically rich and theory-informed analytical essays written by a global collection of leading scholars on contemporary Turkey, addresses many central issues that bear both on the Republic’s history as well as on major political, social, economic, cultural, and foreign policy issues that confront Turkey today. Much focus is given to particular “turning points” in the past as well as how 2023, during which Turkey had a highly-contested and polarized election, may also serve as a critical juncture for the country. Reflections on the Centenary of the Republic of Turkey will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of Middle Eastern studies and Turkish history, politics, and foreign policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Turkish Studies.

Author : Behçet Kemal Yeşilbursa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Turkey
ISBN : 6256579135

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The Centenary of the Republic of Turkey (1923-2023) by Behçet Kemal Yeşilbursa Pdf

"The Turkish Republic celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2023. Indeed, Turkey is an ancient country, and we cherish the memories of the past. However, we embarked on a new journey one hundred years ago when we became a completely modern nation. Many achievements have been made during this period, but perhaps the world still does not completely recognise how far the country has come. Needless to say, there still remains a distance between Turkey and Europe, but this is getting less every day. After one hundred years, Turkey is in far better shape than when the Republic was first established. Turkey remained a highly impoverished and underdeveloped agricultural nation in 1923, with minimal industry, scant infrastructure, and a high death rate. Nevertheless, Atatürk, the Republic’s creator, was determined to rebuild Turkey from the ruins he inherited into a powerful, independent, affluent, and modern nation. In 2023, Turkey has an estimated population of 85 million, which is seven times larger than it was at the start of the Republic. Almost half the population resides in urban areas. The society is largely industrialised, and with universities located in every province, it is becoming increasingly high-tech. Moreover, Turkey is a democracy, and is the only secular state in the Islamic world, as well as the only democracy with a strong foundation in the region. However, it could be said that Turkey may not have always received the recognition it merits for this. Some even argue that it ought to be more Islamic and Middle Eastern. But in my opinion, one of the most significant developments for the global system has been the rise of a sizable, powerful industrial nation with a pluralist government on the outskirts of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. In the coming century, Turkey’s significance will only increase."--

Author : Binnur Özkeçeci-Taner,Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031358593

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One Hundred Years of Turkish Foreign Policy (1923-2023) by Binnur Özkeçeci-Taner,Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe Pdf

This book brings together an all-women group of scholars to provide a historically grounded and theoretically rich examination of the continuities and changes in Turkey’s foreign policy since the Republic's establishment in 1923. Using different International Relations theories, clarifying the interaction between domestic politics and foreign policymaking, the book charts the evolution of Turkey’s foreign policy vis-a-vis several regions and global actors and examines the major developments in Turkey’s relations with these actors. Some chapters emphasize the continuities in Turkey’s external relations, and others examine the significant changes and discontinuities in certain areas. Recognizing that Turkey’s state interests may not always coincide with the interests of the ruling elite, the book demonstrates that the centennial birthday of Turkey represents a constitutive moment for Turkey’s future and calls for a pragmatic, as opposed to a completely ideologically-based, grand strategy that should focus on progressive ideals.

Author : Yasemin Kirkgöz,Ali Karakaş
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030885977

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English as the Medium of Instruction in Turkish Higher Education by Yasemin Kirkgöz,Ali Karakaş Pdf

This book examines the phenomenon of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Turkish higher education, using research-based findings and review-based discussions with a critical focus on diverse aspects of EMI. Particularly, it addresses issues under four major themes: EMI policy and the macro level context, teaching practices in EMI, learning experiences in EMI and future directions for EMI in Turkey. English as the Medium of Instruction in Turkish Higher Education: Policy, Practice in Action and Future Directions comprehensively examines the EMI phenomenon by taking Turkey as a case study and it exclusively explores existing issues against different conceptual frameworks and theoretical foundations. It also explores novel issues around EMI, such as EMI assessment, EMI classroom interaction, and technology-enhanced EMI teacher training. Written by established experts in the field, this volume will be of particular interest to scholars of English for Academic Purposes, English Medium Instruction and Applied Linguistics as well as postgraduate students of Applied Linguistics, English as a Lingua Franca, English for Academic Purposes, and language and education policy. The book might also appeal to policy makers both in Turkey and in international education seeking blueprints to align their avowed principles and ground realities for purposes of effective practices.

Author : Marc David Baer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253045430

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Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks by Marc David Baer Pdf

An examination of why Jews promote a positive image of Ottomans and Turks while denying the Armenian genocide and the existence of antisemitism in Turkey. Based on historical narrative, the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 were embraced by the Ottoman Empire and then, later, protected from the Nazis during WWII. If we believe that Turks and Jews have lived in harmony for so long, then how can we believe that the Turks could have committed genocide against the Armenians? Marc David Baer confronts these convictions and circumstances to reflect on what moral responsibility the descendants of the victims of one genocide have to the descendants of victims of another. Baer delves into the history of Muslim-Jewish relations in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey to find the origin of these myths. He aims to foster reconciliation between Jews, Muslims, and Christians, not only to face inconvenient historical facts but to confront, accept, and deal with them. By looking at the complexities of interreligious relations, Holocaust denial, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and confronting some long-standing historical stereotypes, Baer aims to tell a new history that goes against Turkish antisemitism and admits to the Armenian genocide. “[Baer] demonstrates not only his erudition and knowledge of the sources but his courage on confronting a major myth of Ottoman history and current Turkish politics: the tolerance and defense of Jews by the Ottoman and Turkish state.” —Ronald Grigor Suny, editor of A Question of Genocide “A very significant study regarding the origins of violence and its denial in Turkey through the empirical study of not only antisemitism, but also its connection to genocide denial.” —Fatma Müge Göçek, author of The Transformation of Turkey

Author : Andreas Krieg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811363146

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Divided Gulf by Andreas Krieg Pdf

This book discusses the various critical dimensions of the Qatar Crisis as a development that has fundamentally reshaped the nature of regional integration for the near future. It represents the first academic attempt to challenge the commonly propagated binary view of this conflict. Further, the book explains the Gulf Crisis in the context of the transformation of the Gulf in the early 21st century, with new alliances and balances of power emerging. At the heart of the book lies the question of how the changing global and regional order facilitated or even fuelled the 2017 Crisis, which it argues was only the most recent climax in an ongoing crisis in the Gulf, on that had been simmering since 2011 and is rooted in historical feuds that date back to the 1800s. While contextualizing the crisis historically, the book also seeks to look beyond historical events to identify underlying patterns of identity security in connection with state and nation building in the Gulf.

Author : Wen Wang,Jinjing Jia,Yushu Liu,Peng Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811674198

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Profound Changes Unseen in Centuries by Wen Wang,Jinjing Jia,Yushu Liu,Peng Wang Pdf

This book focuses on the current internal and external situation China is facing both from a macro perspective and a theoretical height, and puts forward practical development strategies and diplomatic ideas. It is of great methodological significance. At home, the development thought after the conclusion of the hundred-year change is the guiding thought for China's further development, and abroad, the international communication and the construction of international order highlighted by the hundred-year change also have important reference significance for the world's development.

Author : Steven Paget
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813180342

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Allies in Air Power by Steven Paget Pdf

In the past century, multinational military operations have become the norm; but while contributions from different nations provide many benefits—from expanded capability to political credibility—they also present a number of challenges. Issues such as command and control, communications, equipment standardization, intelligence, logistics, planning, tactics, and training all require consideration. Cultural factors present challenges as well, particularly when language barriers are involved. In Allies in Air Power, experts from around the world survey these operations from the birth of aviation to the present day. Chapters cover conflicts including World War I, multiple theaters of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, Kosovo, the Iraq War, and various United Nations peacekeeping missions. Contributors also analyze the role of organizations such as the UN, NATO, and so-called "coalitions of the willing" in laying the groundwork for multinational air operations. While multinational military action has become commonplace, there have been few detailed studies of air power cooperation over a prolonged period or across multiple conflicts. The case studies in this volume not only assess the effectiveness of multinational operations over time, but also provide vital insights into how they may be improved in the future.

Author : Kaya Genç
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788316996

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The Lion and the Nightingale by Kaya Genç Pdf

Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and novelist Kaya Genc travelled around his country on a quest to find the places and people in whom the contrasts of Turkey's rich past meet. As suicide bombers attack Istanbul, and journalists and teachers are imprisoned, he walks the streets of the famous Ottoman neighbourhoods, telling the stories of the ordinary Turks who live among the contradictions and conflicts of Anatolia, one of the world's oldest civilizations. The Lion and the Nightingale presents the spellbinding story of a country whose history has been split between East and West, between violence and beauty - between the roar of the lion and the song of the nightingale. Weaving together a mixture of memoir, interview and his own autobiography, Genc takes the reader on a contemporary journey through the contradictory soul of the Turkish nation.

Author : Peter Loewenberg,Nellie L. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429910180

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100 Years of the IPA by Peter Loewenberg,Nellie L. Thompson Pdf

This book offers a close glimpse of the nuanced dialectic between major psychoanalytic concepts and the sociopolitical environments in which such ideas were germinated, spread, took roots, and further evolved.

Author : Senem Aydın-Düzgit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:1088453336

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Global Turkey in Europe by Senem Aydın-Düzgit Pdf

The EU is changing, Turkey too, and - above all - there is systemic change and crisis all round, ranging from economics, the spread of democratic norms and foreign policy. This research paper explores how the EU and Turkey can enhance their cooperation in the political, economic, and foreign policy domains and how they can find a way out of the stalemate EU-Turkey relations have reached with the lack of progress in accession negotiations and the increasing uncertainty over both the future of the European project after the Eurozone crisis and Turkey's role in it.

Author : Selim Deringil
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644690901

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The Ottoman Twilight in the Arab Lands by Selim Deringil Pdf

The Great War is still seen as a mostly European war. The Middle Eastern theater is, at best, considered a sideshow written from the western perspective. This book fills an important gap in the literature by giving an insight through annotated translations from five Ottoman memoirs, previously not available in English, of actors who witnessed the last few years of Turkish presence in the Arab lands. It provides the historical background to many of the crises in the Middle East today, such as the Arab–Israeli confrontation, the conflict-ridden emergence of Syria and Lebanon, the struggle over the holy places of Islam in the Hejaz, and the mutual prejudices of Arabs and Turks about each other.

Author : Turkey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Constitutions
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120766923

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The Turkish Constitution by Turkey Pdf

Author : Vahagn Avedian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429845154

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Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide by Vahagn Avedian Pdf

Is the Armenian Genocide a strictly historical matter? If that is the case, why is it still a topical issue, capable of causing diplomatic rows and heated debates? The short answer would be that the century old Armenian Genocide is much more than a historical question. It emerged as a political dilemma on the international arena at the San Stefano peace conference in 1878 and has remained as such into our days. The disparity between knowledge and acknowledgement, mainly ascribable to Turkey’s official denial of the genocide, has only heightened the politicization of the Armenian question. Thus, the memories of the WWI era refuse to be relegated to the pages of history but are rather perceived as a vivid presence. This is the result of the perpetual process of politics of memory. The politics of memory is an intricate and interdisciplinary negotiation, engaging many different actors in the society who have access to a wide range of resources and measures in order to achieve their goals. By following the Armenian question during the past century up to its Centennial Commemoration in 2015, this study aims to explain why and how the politics of memory of the Armenian Genocide has kept it as a topical issue in our days.

Author : Tomasz Kamusella
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351062688

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Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War by Tomasz Kamusella Pdf

In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It was the single largest ethnic cleansing during the Cold War in Europe after the wrapping up of the postwar expulsions (‘population transfers’) of ethnic Germans from Central Europe in the latter half of the 1940s. Furthermore, this expulsion of Turks and Muslims from Bulgaria was the sole unilateral act of ethnic cleansing that breached the Iron Curtain. The 1989 ethnic cleansing was followed by an unprecedented return of almost half of the expellees, after the collapse of the Bulgarian communist regime. The return, which partially reversed the effects of this ethnic cleansing, was the first-ever of its kind in history. Despite the unprecedented character of this 1989 expulsion and the subsequent return, not a single research article, let alone a monograph, has been devoted to these momentous developments yet. However, the tragic events shape today’s Bulgaria, while the persisting attempts to suppress the remembrance of the 1989 expulsion continue sharply dividing the country’s inhabitants. Without remembering about this ethnic cleansing it is impossible to explain the fall of the communist system in Bulgaria and the origins of ethnic cleansing during the Yugoslav wars. Faltering Yugoslavia’s future ethnic cleansers took a good note that neither Moscow nor Washington intervened in neighboring Bulgaria to stop the 1989 expulsion, which in light of international law was then still the legal instrument of ‘population transfer.’ The as yet unhealed wound of the 1989 ethnic cleansing negatively affects the Bulgaria’s relations with Turkey and the European Union. It seems that the only way out of this debilitating conundrum is establishing a truth and reconciliation commission that at long last would ensure transitional justice for all Bulgarians irrespective of language, religion or ethnicity.