Pan-Turkism
Pan-Turkism

Author: Jacob M. Landau

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780253328694

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Landau's book is important in several respects... it provides exhaustive information on almost every pan-Turk publication and all of its authors and publicists. Landau appears to have consulted every conceivable source, including archives and collections... In addition, the book is useful to students of pan-nationalism and nationalism, for Landau also expertly places all his information into a larger theoretical context. This contribution to the literature is invaluable. -- Journal of Developing Areas... a most worthwhile work, ... It... deserves to be in all library collections on the Middle East. -- Perspectives on Political ScienceLandau has provided an up-to-date compendium of facts concerning the history of these nationalist ideas and movements. Students of nationalism in general and the politics of post-Soviet Central Asia and the Turkish Republic in particular will remain greatly indebted to [Landau] for some considerable time. -- American Political Science ReviewAn examination of relations between Turks in Turkey and their kin abroad -- in Cyprus, the Balkans, and especially in the six ex-Soviet Muslim republics in the Caucasus and Central Asia. This book delineates the special relationship between the new republics and Turkey, which has altered the essence of Pan-Turkism from militant irredentism to practical solidarity in matters political, economic, and cultural.

The Formation of Turkish Republicanism
The Formation of Turkish Republicanism

Author: Banu Turnaoğlu

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0691210136

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Turkish republicanism is commonly thought to have originated with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the founding of modern Turkey in 1923, and understood exclusively in terms of Kemalist ideals, characterized by the principles of secularism, nationalism, statism, and populism. Banu Turnaoğlu challenges this view, showing how Turkish republicanism represents the outcome of centuries of intellectual dispute in Turkey over Islamic and liberal conceptions of republicanism, culminating in the victory of Kemalism in the republic's formative period. Drawing on a wealth of rare archival material, Turnaoğlu presents the first complete history of republican thinking in Turkey from the birth of the Ottoman state to the founding of the modern republic. She shows how the Kemalists wrote Turkish history from their own perspective, presenting their own version of republicanism as inevitable while disregarding the contributions of competing visions. Turnaoğlu demonstrates how republicanism has roots outside the Western political experience, broadening our understanding of intellectual history. She reveals how the current crises in Turkish politics—including the Kurdish Question, democratic instability, the rise of radical Islam, and right-wing Turkish nationalism—arise from intellectual tensions left unresolved by Kemalist ideology. A breathtaking work of scholarship, The Formation of Turkish Republicanism offers a strikingly new narrative of the evolution and shaping of modern Turkey.

Turkey's Relations with the West and the Turkic Republics
Turkey's Relations with the West and the Turkic Republics

Author: Idris Bal

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781138729254

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Turkish Model of Development -- 2. Turkish Reaction to the Emergence of the Turkic Republics -- 3. The Rise and the Fall of the Turkish Model in the West -- 4. Reactions of the Turkic Republics to Turkey and the Turkish Model -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography

Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East
Kemalist Turkey and the Middle East

Author: Amit Bein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-11-09

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1107198003

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A multifaceted study of Turkey's diplomatic, economic, social and cultural relations with the Middle East in the interwar period.

Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union
Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union

Author: Vahram Ter-Matevosyan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 3319974033

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This book examines the Kemalist ideology of Turkey from two perspectives. It discusses major problems in the existing interpretations of the topic and how the incorporation of Soviet perspectives enriches the historiography and our understanding of that ideology. To address these questions, the book looks into the origins, evolution, and transformational phases of Kemalism between the 1920s and 1970s. The research also focuses on perspectives from abroad by observing how republican Turkey and particularly its founding ideology were viewed and interpreted by Soviet observers. Paying more attention to the diplomatic, geopolitical, and economic complexities of Turkish-Soviet relations, scholars have rarely problematized those perceptions of Turkish ideological transformations. Looking at various phases of Soviet attitudes towards Kemalism and its manifestations through the lenses of Communist leaders, party functionaries, diplomats and scholars, the book illuminates the underlying dynamics of Soviet interpretations.

Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States
Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States

Author: Ahmet Ersoy

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 9637326618

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Notwithstanding the advantages of physical power, the struggle for survival among societies is not merely a matter of serial armed clashes but of the nation's spiritual resources that in the end always decide upon the victory. In Europe, there indeed exist independent countries, insignificant from the point of view of the entire civilization, and born by sheer coincidence, yet, this coincidence, this fancy, or diplomatic ploy that created them can just as easily bring them to an end---the nations that count in the political calculations are only the enlightened ones. Therefore, our nation should not merely grow in power, strengthen its character, and foster in people the feeling of love for homeland, but also---inasmuch as it is possible---breath the fresh breeze of humanity's general progress, feed it to the nation, absorb its creative energy. Until now, we have trusted and lived only in the weary conditions, conditions devoid of health-giving elements---now, as a result the nation's heart beats too slowly and its mind works too tediously. We ought to open our windows to Europe, to the wind of continental change and allow it to air our sultry home, since as not all health comes from the inside, not all disease comes from the outside.

Turkey
Turkey

Author: Leanne Kitchen

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1742665373

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Take an evocative journey into the diverse cuisines and culinary customs of regional Turkey. Turkish food traverses the extremes of sophistication - from the refined cooking of the Ottoman court to the rustic simplicity of peasant food. Food and travel writer, Leanne Kitchen, has roamed the country armed with her camera, keen sense of observation and passion for all things culinary. From spicy red lentil kofte and slow-roasted lamb with pomegranate juice to rose cream meringues and Turkish coffee custard, Leanne unveils not just the inspiration for her collection of authentic and contemporary recipes but the very essence of Turkish hospitality.