Becoming Turkish

Becoming Turkish

Author: Hale Yilmaz

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2013-07-30

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0815652224

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Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post—Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Yilmaz asks how the reforms were mediated on the ground and how ordinary citizens received, reacted to, and experienced them. She traces the experiences of the subaltern as well as the experiences of the elites and the mediators in the overall narrative—highlighting the relevance of class, gender, location, and urban and rural differences while also revealing the importance of nonideological, social, and psychological factors such as childhood and generations.


Turkey Under Erdoğan

Turkey Under Erdoğan

Author: Dimitar Bechev

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2022-02-22

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0300265018

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An incisive account of Erdoğan’s Turkey – showing how its troubling transformation may be short-lived Since coming to power in 2002 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has overseen a radical transformation of Turkey. Once a pillar of the Western alliance, the country has embarked on a militaristic foreign policy, intervening in regional flashpoints from Nagorno-Karabakh to Libya. And its democracy, sustained by the aspiration to join the European Union, has given way to one-man rule. Dimitar Bechev traces the political trajectory of Erdoğan’s populist regime, from the era of reform and prosperity in the 2000s to the effects of the war in neighboring Syria. In a tale of missed opportunities, Bechev explores how Turkey parted ways with the United States and Europe, embraced Putin’s Russia and other revisionist powers, and replaced a frail democratic regime with an authoritarian one. Despite this, he argues that Turkey’s democratic instincts are resilient, its economic ties to Europe are as strong as ever, and Erdoğan will fail to achieve a fully autocratic regime.


Media in New Turkey

Media in New Turkey

Author: Bilge Yesil

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2016-06-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780252081651

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In Media in New Turkey, Bilge Yesil unlocks the complexities surrounding and penetrating today's Turkish media. Yesil focuses on a convergence of global and domestic forces that range from the 1980 military coup to globalization's inroads and the recent resurgence of political Islam. Her analysis foregrounds how these and other forces become intertwined, and she uses Turkey's media to unpack the ever-more-complex relationships. Yesil confronts essential questions regarding: the role of the state and military in building the structures that shaped Turkey's media system; media adaptations to ever-shifting contours of political and economic power; how the far-flung economic interests of media conglomerates leave them vulnerable to state pressure; and the ways Turkey's politicized judiciary criminalizes certain speech. Drawing on local knowledge and a wealth of Turkish sources, Yesil provides an engrossing look at the fault lines carved by authoritarianism, tradition, neoliberal reform, and globalization within Turkey's increasingly far-reaching media.


Network Policy Making within the Turkish Health Sector

Network Policy Making within the Turkish Health Sector

Author: Julinda Hoxha

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

Published: 2020-03-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781838670955

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This book presents findings produced by micro- and meso-level analysis of policy networks using the Turkish context as a new case study and demonstrates that networks have become an integral part of the practice of policy making within the Turkish health sector.


The Delights of Learning Turkish

The Delights of Learning Turkish

Author: Yasar Esendal Kuzucu

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-05-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781499389432

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Includes an answer key, a Turkish-English glossary, and an English-Turkish glossary.


The Turkish Lover

The Turkish Lover

Author: Esmeralda Santiago

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0786738332

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Enthralled admirers of Esmeralda Santiago's memoirs of her childhood have yearned to read more. Now, in The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda finally breaks out of the monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to elope into the spell of an exotic love affair. At the heart of the story is Esmeralda's relationship with "the Turk," a passion that gradually becomes a prison out of which she must emerge to become herself. The expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage that made Esmeralda's first two books so successful are on full display again in The Turkish Lover.


The Turkish Gambit

The Turkish Gambit

Author: Boris Akunin

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0812968786

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In 1877, Erast Fandorin finds himself at the Bulgarian front in a war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, where he assists a Russian woman who is risking her life for her fiancé, who has been falsely accused of espionage.


In Pursuit of Belonging

In Pursuit of Belonging

Author: Susan Beth Rottmann

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2019-06-06

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1789202701

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Belonging is a not a state that we achieve, but a struggle that we wage. The struggle for belonging is more difficult if one is returning to a homeland after many years abroad. In Pursuit of Belonging is an ethnography of Turkish migrants’ struggle for understanding, intimacy and appreciation when they return from Germany to their Turkish homeland. Drawing on an established tradition of life story writing in anthropology, Rottmann conveys the struggle to forge an ethical life by relating the experiences of a second-generation German-Turkish woman named Leyla.