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Book SynopsisThis Handbook discusses the new political and social realities in Turkey from a range of perspectives, emphasizing both changes as well as continuities. Contextualizing recent developments, the chapters, written by experts in their fields, combine analytical depth with a broad overview.
In the last few years alone, Turkey has experienced a failed coup attempt; a prolonged state of emergency; the development of a presidential system based on the supreme power of the head of state; a crackdown on traditional and new media, universities and civil society organizations; the detention of journalists, mayors and members of parliament; the establishment of political tutelage over the judiciary; and a staggering economic crisis. It has also terminated talks with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK); intervened in and occupied mountainous border areas in northern Iraq to fight that organization; occupied Afrin and strips of territory in northern Syria; intervened in Libya; articu
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Joost Jongerden
2. Politics and ideology: party and opposition in the late Ottoman and early Republican period James Ryan
3.Violence against the Kurds in the Turkish Republic Uğur Ümit Üngör & Ayhan Işık
4. Remaking Turkey’s Polity and Cultural Landscapes Zeynep Kezer
5. Refugees of the 1923 population exchange between Turkey and Greece: Greek efforts for integration and assimilation Eleni Kyramargiou
6. The Making of a National City: From Mezre to Elazığ Ali Sipahi
7. Populism in Turkey: From a political style to a model for global politics? Asım Karaömerlioğlu
8. Turkish secular nationalism as religion Ferhat Kentel
9. Parties and Politics in Turkey Elise Massicard
10. Civil-Military Relations in Turkey: Patterns and Possibilities Burak Bilgehan Özpek
11. Coups and state-formation in Turkey Nikos Christofis
12. Constitutions and Political System Ergun Özbudun
13. Competitive Authoritarianism in Turkey under the AKP Rule Berk Esen
14. Politics of Truth and Post-Truth Hakkı Taş
15. Kurdish Politics in Turkey Cengiz Gunes
16. Turkish Nationalism and Patriarchy Simten Coşar
17. Youth Politics Ayça Alemdaroglu
18. Tracing the Reverse History of Homosexuality from Ottoman Empire to Contemporary Turkey: From Acceptance to Discrimination Ceylan Engin & Zeynep Özbarlas
19. Mad Patriots: Militarized Masculinities and Nation Building in Contemporary Turkish Novels Çimen Günay-Erkol
20. Contemporary Cinema of Turkey: Being and Becoming Gönül Dönmez-Colin
21. Musical Diversity and the Struggle for Identities Martin Greve
22. The Political Economy of Turkey in the Last Two Centuries Bora Selçuk & Murat Öztürk
23. The Kurdish Question in Contemporary Turkey: A Political Economy Perspective Veli Yadirgi
24. "Concrete" steps towards modernization: Dam-, state-, and nation-building in southeastern Turkey Arda Bilgen
25. Political Economy of Environmental Conflicts in Turkey: From the Bergama Resistance to the Gezi Protests and Beyond Murat Arsel, Fikret Adaman & Bengi Akbulut
26. Agriculture and Rural Life in Turkey Murat Öztürk, Joost Jongerden & Andy Hilton
27. The Layers of an Onion: Food and Nation in Turkey John William Day
28. Migration from Rural Anatolia to Metropolitan Cities Tahire Erman
29. The Architecture of Dispossession, Disaster, and Emergency in Urban Turkey Eray Çaylı
30. Civilizing Space: Addressing disorder in rural and urban landscapes Joost Jongerden
31. Social Movements and Urban Activism in Turkey Christopher Houston
32. Religious Movements in Turkey Ceren Lord
33. The Quest for Cultural Power: Islamism, Culture and Art in Turkey Özgür Yaren, Cenk Saraçoğlu and Irmak Karademir-Hazır
34. Media as Hyper-Social and Activists as Critical Generators in Contemporary Turkey Asli Telli Aydemir
35. Turkey’s responses to refugees: past and present Ahmet İçduygu & Damla B. Aksel
36. "Turkey is Bigger than Turkey": Diaspora-building and the transnational politics of the Turkish State Banu Şenay
37. Turkey and the West: Dealignment in Contemporary Times Sinan Ciddi
38. Turkey and the Middle East Michael M. Gunter
39. Turkey’s ‘Novel’ Enterprising and Humanitarian Foreign Policy and Africa Pinar Akpinar
