America and the Making of Modern Turkey

Ali Erken

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's government encouraged substantial American investment in education and aid. It was argue... Lees meer

Women and Public Space in Turkey

Selda Tuncer

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• Turkey's process of `modernization' developed rapidly during the second half of the twentieth century. New social and legal reforms were institutional... Lees meer

Kemalism

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey | nr. 42
• The founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, came to power in 1923 with a radical and wide-ranging programme of reforms, known collectively as... Lees meer

Conspiracy Theory in Turkey

Julian de Medeiros

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• Turkey is witnessing an era of political upheaval. From the Gezi protests in 2013 to the attempted military coup of 2016, the concept of `post-truth' ... Lees meer

America and the Making of Modern Turkey

Ali Erken

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• After the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's government encouraged substantial American investment in education and aid. It was argue... Lees meer

Authoritarian Politics in Turkey

Bahar Baser, Ahmet Erdi Öztürk

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• President Erdogan's victory in the April 2017 referendum granted him sweeping new powers across Turkey. The constitutional reforms transform the count... Lees meer

Architecture and the Turkish City

Murat Gül

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in t... Lees meer

The Politics of Crime in Turkey

Zeynep Gönen

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• This book focuses on urban crime and policing in Turkey since the steady economic decline of the 1990s. Concentrating on the attempts to 'modernize' t... Lees meer

Turkey, Power and the West

Ali Bilgic

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• During the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the AKP, the Turkish government shifted from a 'reactive' to an 'activist' foreign policy. As a resu... Lees meer

The Circassians of Turkey

Caner Yelbasi

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• Turkey's Circassians were exiled to the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in 1864, resettling most notably in the Dan... Lees meer

Urban Muslim Migrants in Istanbul

Frances Trix

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• Some fled following World War II, and travelled east by train to Istanbul with no more than a suitcase. And yet 50 years later, one of their migrant a... Lees meer

Secularism and State Religion in Modern Turkey

Emir Kaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• The Diyanet, the official face of Islam in Turkey, is the `Presidency of Religious Affairs', a governmental department established in 1924 after the b... Lees meer

Activism and Women's NGOs in Turkey

Asuman Özgür Keysan

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• Civil society is often seen as male, structured in a way that excludes women from public and political life. Much feminist scholarship sees civil soci... Lees meer

Contested Spaces in Contemporary Turkey

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• The most significant political development of the post-Cold War era was, arguably, the diffusion of neoliberalism across the globe. Yet behind the ill... Lees meer

Urban Poverty in Turkey

Burcu Sentürk

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• Gecekondu settlements-or shanty towns-in large Turkish cities are mostly populated by low-income families, many of which have migrated from the villag... Lees meer

Faith and Fashion in Turkey

Nazli Alimen

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularl... Lees meer

Citizenship and Identity in Turkey

Basak Ince

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• Is Turkish nationalism simply a product of Kemalist propaganda from the early Turkish Republic or an inevitable consequence of a firm and developing '... Lees meer

The Kosovar Turks and Post-Kemalist Turkey

Husrev Tabak

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• Even before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Turkic communities, living in states newly independent from Ottoman rule, were 'protected' by the Otto... Lees meer

Military Intervention and a Crisis of Democracy in Turkey

Mogens Pelt

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• Adnan Menderes' election to power in 1950 signalled a new epoch in the history of modern Turkey. For the first time a democratic government ruled the ... Lees meer

Migration from Turkey to Sweden

Bahar Baser, Paul T Levin

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• The `refugee crisis' and the recent rise of anti-immigration parties across Europe has prompted widespread debates about migration, integration and se... Lees meer

Nation-Building in Modern Turkey

Alexandros Lamprou

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• From 1924 to 1946 the Republic of Turkey was in effect ruled as an authoritarian single-party regime. During these years the state embarked upon an ex... Lees meer

Creating Images of a Turkish Past: Identity and the Representation of Archaeology in Modern Turkey

Melania Savino

• Hardcover | Library of Modern Turkey
• By looking at Turkish identity through the legacy of its archaeological sites, this book offers a unique contribution to the study of modern Turkey. Lees meer

Gender and Society in Turkey

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• In promising women equal citizenship rights and promoting gender equality, Turkey's recent welfare reforms appear to address fundamental problems-the ... Lees meer

Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey

Solen Sanli

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Modern Turkey
• In 2005, a Turkish woman was shot dead by her son in an 'honour killing' for appearing on a popular women's talk show on television. The show invited ... Lees meer