The Centenary Of The Republic Of Turkey 1923 2023

Author : Behçet Kemal Yeşilbursa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Paul Kubicek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Binnur Özkeçeci-Taner,Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Brian Croke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000522754

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Flashpoint Hagia Sophia by Brian Croke Pdf

Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia (‘Holy Wisdom’), or Ayasofya, is one of the world’s most visited buildings. Yet, few visitors have any idea of its long and complex story, or why it has always been a place where history, religion and politics collide. In July 2020, Turkish President Erdoğan set off an explosive controversy by announcing that Hagia Sophia would now be modified into a mosque. This decision provoked fierce criticism from UNESCO because Hagia Sophia was enjoying World Heritage Site benefits. The United States, the European Union, Russia and Greece all chimed in. However, Erdoğan’s action was wildly popular in Turkey, with its 99% Muslim population. Why is Hagia Sophia so important to modern Turkey? Why this provocative decision, and why now? How could all the international critics be ignored? Why does the world care so much about this old building? Why should it continue to care? This book explains President Erdoğan’s controversial decision in terms of Turkey’s national, independent and Islamic politics, and as a response to the mosque massacre in Christchurch in March 2019 when his life was threatened by the gunman. Any consideration of Hagia Sophia’s present and future also requires appreciation of the almost 1,500-year old story of this architectural marvel, from its inception as a church in 537 to its configuration as a mosque in 2020 and beyond. Because all world heritage sites depend on national management, Hagia Sophia will remain Turkey’s responsibility, but the international community is watching to ensure Turkey honours Hagia Sophia’s entire heritage, from the 6th century to the 21st century.

Author : Dr Mujib Alam
Publisher : KW Publishers Pvt Ltd
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789385714115

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Perspectives on Turkey's Multi-Regional Role in the 21st Century by Dr Mujib Alam Pdf

This book dwells upon the various aspects of the Turkish foreign policy in the different regions of the world, especially with the dawn of the twenty-first century. Turkey has attracted international attention due to a marked transformation in the country’s domestic and external realms, which in turn, has led to an increased activism in its foreign policy actions. Particularly, Turkey’s economic rise has fuelled the country’s ambition and quest for a more significant role in international affairs. These transformations have come about with the ascendance of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) [or Justice & Development Party (JDP)] to power in 2002. Turkey, under the AKP, moved towards a ‘new’ direction in the foreign policy and consequently endeavoured to play a larger role in West Asia (Middle East), the Balkans, southern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Africa and Asia. The country has emerged as a multi-regional player having stakes and tractions on a range of issues in these regions. The several discernible aspects of Turkey’s involvement are dealt with in the contributions to this volume.

Author : Yasemin Kirkgöz,Ali Karakaş
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Bayram Balci,Nicolas Monceau
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031334443

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Turkey, a Century of Change in State and Society by Bayram Balci,Nicolas Monceau Pdf

The Republic of Turkey celebrates the centenary of its proclamation in 2023. Founded on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, one of the world’s greatest empires both in terms of its geographical extent and its longevity, Republican Turkey has gone through a century of profound and constant changes and transformations from politics to society, economy to religion, or culture to history. These changes have been produced by inner and foreign policies carried out and implemented by the country’s leaders – from Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the current Turkish President in 2023 - but also under the influence of the regional and international context. This collective work aims to take stock of the great achievements of the Turkish republican project. It attempts to draw a general presentation of the evolution of contemporary Turkey in six main areas which constitute six major issues for the country: the general political evolution of Turkey focusing on the issue of citizenship; the transformations in the Turkish economy through a political economy analysis; the evolution of the relationship between religion, state and society; Turkey’s nation-building and the Kurdish question, which still seeks a solution; the changes in Turkish foreign policy focusing on the relationship between Turkey and the West; the relationship between Turkey and Europe, caught between the model of civilization for the republican regime and the prospects of accession to the European Union. Several “focus points” also concentrate on specific subjects such as the Alevi issue, the Cyprus issue or the Turkish soft power with an accent on Africa.

Author : IBP, Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781433062612

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Turkey Recent Economic and Political Developments Yearbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments by IBP, Inc. Pdf

2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Turkey Recent Economic and Political Developments Yearbook

Author : IBP, Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438748849

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Turkey Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments by IBP, Inc. Pdf

Author : Collective of authors
Publisher : MAC Prague consulting
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788090544284

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Proceedings of MAC-EMM 2014 by Collective of authors Pdf

Conference proceedings - Multidisciplinary Academic Conference on Economics, Management and Marketing in Prague 2014 (MAC-EMM 2014)

Author : Lucienne Thys-Şenocak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317149071

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Divided Spaces, Contested Pasts by Lucienne Thys-Şenocak Pdf

The Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey was the site of one of the most tragic and memorable battles of the twentieth century, with the Turks fighting the ANZAC (Australian New Zealand Army Corps) and soldiers from fifteen other countries. This book explores the history of its landscape, its people, and its heritage, from the day that the defeated Allied troops of World War One evacuated the peninsula in January 1916 to the present. It examines how the wartime heritage of this region, both tangible and intangible, is currently being redefined by the Turkish state to bring more of a faith-based approach to the secularist narratives about the origins of the country. It provides a timely and fascinating look at what has happened in the last century to a landscape that was devastated and emptied of its inhabitants at the end of World War One, how it recovered, and why this geography continues to be a site of contested heritage. This book will be a key text for scholars of cultural and historical geography, Ottoman and World War One archaeology, architectural history, commemorative and conflict studies, European military history, critical heritage studies, politics, and international relations.

Author : Jeremy Salt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1607817047

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The Last Ottoman Wars by Jeremy Salt Pdf

"Jeremy Salt's manuscript "The last Ottoman wars" is a unique, timely, and humane study of warfare and its many costs in a region that has been fought over and upon for centuries. The Ottoman Empire and its surrounding territories, which in this work covers the Balkans to eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus, was during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth a place of political unrest and constant military action. Historians have since chronicled and contested questions of how, what, where, when, and why battlefield or diplomatic strategies failed or succeeded as they did in Ottoman-European conflicts. So too have historians questioned how and to what degree the actions of generals and statesmen, as well as financiers, resulted in ruin for millions of Ottoman peoples, specifically Armenians and other Ottoman Christians. Overlooked, according to Salt, have been millions of Ottoman Muslims, who during the time period in question were massacred and displaced before the advance and against the retreat of invading armies. This manuscript is, as Salt writes, an attempt "to bring these invisible victims of war back into the picture." "The Last Ottoman Wars" offers readers a glimpse into the daily lives of Ottoman Muslims, and indeed all ordinary Ottoman citizens. Instead of following the nations and individuals desperate to get what spoils they could from an empire in decline, Salt centers his focus on those left to live with what remained after nearly all had been taken. These people, at the edge of modernity, lived with malnutrition, disease, internecine violence, and crumbling infrastructures a generation before World War I and immediately after its devastation"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Richard Pine,Vera Konidari
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527569218

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The Eye of the Xenos, Letters about Greece (Durrell Studies 3) by Richard Pine,Vera Konidari Pdf

The condition of Greece, ever since its establishment as a sovereign state in 1830, has been the subject of intense international debate, centring on its pivotal role in the Balkans. This has been aggravated by Greece’s economic collapse in 2010 and by the ongoing refugee crisis, by environmental disasters, terrorism and the Macedonian question. This book’s analysis and assessment of Greek social, cultural and political life is trenchant, up-front and passionate, based on the author’s belief that one cannot love Greece without also mourning the fault-lines in bureaucracy and the dynastic politics which have dominated it since its inception. This book features a selection of the author’s “Letters from Greece” (from The Irish Times) and his “Eye of the Xenos”, from the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, in its entirety, in both English and a Greek translation, including columns which Kathimerini refused to print due to the nature of their political commentary.

Author : Soner Cagaptay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786722362

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The New Sultan by Soner Cagaptay Pdf

In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Since 2002, Erdo?an has consolidated his hold on domestic politics while using military and diplomatic means to solidify Turkey as a regional power. His crackdown has been brutal and consistent - scores of journalists arrested, academics officially banned from leaving the country, university deans fired and many of the highest-ranking military officers arrested. In some senses, the nefarious and failed 2016 coup has given Erdo?an the licence to make good on his repeated promise to bring order and stability under a 'strongman'. Here, leading Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay will look at Erdo?an's roots in Turkish history, what he believes in and how he has cemented his rule, as well as what this means for the world. The book will also unpick the 'threats' Erdogan has worked to combat - from the liberal Turks to the Gulen movement, from coup plotters to Kurdish nationalists - all of which have culminated in the crisis of modern Turkey.

Author : Robert G. Kaufman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813167220

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Dangerous Doctrine by Robert G. Kaufman Pdf

Much like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, President Barack Obama came to office as a politician who emphasized conviction rather than consensus. During his 2008 presidential campaign, he pledged to transform the role of the United States abroad. His ambitious foreign policy goals included a global climate treaty, the peaceful withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, and a new relationship with Iran. Throughout Obama's tenure, pundits and scholars have offered competing interpretations of his "grand strategy," while others have maintained that his policies were incoherent or, at best, ad hoc. In Dangerous Doctrine, political scientist Robert G. Kaufman argues that the forty-fourth president has indeed articulated a clear, consistent national security policy and has pursued it with remarkable fidelity. Yet Kaufman contends that President Obama has imprudently abandoned the muscular internationalism that has marked US foreign policy since the end of World War II. Drawing on international relations theory and American diplomatic history, Kaufman presents a robust critique of the Obama doctrine as he situates the president's use of power within the traditions of American strategic practice. Focusing on the pivotal regions of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, this provocative study demonstrates how current executive branch leadership threatens America's role as a superpower, weakening its ability to spread democracy and counter threats to geopolitical order in increasingly unstable times. Kaufman proposes a return to the grand strategy of moral democratic realism, as practiced by presidents such as Harry S. Truman, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, with the hope of reestablishing the United States as the world's dominant power.