The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Turkey

by Joost Jongerden (Editor)

Overview

This 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; articulated an assertive transnational politics toward “kin” across the world; strained its relations with the European Union and the US, while developing relations with Russia; flirted with China’s intercontinental Belt and Road Initiative; and carved out a presence in Africa, to name just a few of the most recent developments.

This volume provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging overview of the making of modern Turkey. It is a key reference for students and scholars interested in political economy, security studies, international relations and Turkish studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032023694
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2023
Pages:	534
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joost Jongerden is an associate professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and project professor at Kyoto University in Japan. A common denominator of his research has been the question of how people create and maintain a livable life under conditions of precarity. This he refers to as self- organized practices or “Do-It-Yourself-Development.”

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