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While there is no easy way to define terrorism, it may generally be viewed as a method of violence in which civilians are targeted with the objective of forcing a perceived enemy into submission by creating fear, demoralization, and political friction in the population under attack. At one time a marginal field of study in the social sciences, terrorism is now very much in center stage. The 1970s terrorist attacks by the PLO, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Japanese Red Army, the Unabomber, Aum Shinrikyo, Timothy McVeigh, the World Trade Center attacks, the assault on a school in Russia, and suicide bombers have all made the term ...
Transience is found in every meeting and form of coexistence between people and things that live and exist by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. It may come in various forms and guises, from de facto states, tourism, migration, trafficking or military troops, and it needs to be written and captured in sensuous, affective and imaginative ways. With particular attention to poetics, politics and aesthetics, this volume focuses on the scales of transient moments and histories, and enables readers to see and sense the many forms of transience that occur in a given landscape, sea or space.
Terrorism usually is a consquence of geopolitical decisions. Therefore, this book chooses a historical approach: it shows the most important terrorist attacks un their contexts. After all, terrorism is ultimately not a string of disconnected events; rather follows a line of development that this book seeks to trace in a chronicle.
Combined edition of four documentary books on the repression and violation of human rights in Turkey after the March 12, 1971 military coup, edited in the name of Democratic Resistance of Turkey and sent to all European institutions and human rights organisation: File On Turkey, Man Hunts in Turkey, Turkey on Torture and Resistance posters.
Broken Masculinities portrays the post-dictatorial novel of the 1970s in all its complexity, and introduces the reader to a 1968-era Turkey, a period which challenges Turkey?s now reinforced Islamic image by portraying the quest for sexual liberation and critical student uprisings. G?nay-Erkol argues that the literature written after the 1970 coup in Turkey constitutes a coherent sub-genre and needs to be considered together. These novels share a common ground which is rich in images of men and women craving for power: general isolation, sexual-emotional frustration, and a traumatic sense of solitude and alienation. This book is an original and significant contribution to two major fields of study: (1) gender and sexuality with respect to formation of subjectivity through literature, and (2) modern literature and history through the study of Turkish literature. The chief concern in this book is not only literature?s response to a particular period in Turkey, but also the role of literature in bearing witness to trauma and drastic political acts of violence?and coming to terms with them. ÿ
The Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) is examined here in this text on Kurdish nationalism. Incorporating recent field-based research results and newly translated material on Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's long-time leader; it explores the nature and the organizational working of the party, from its growth in the late 1970s to its recent shrinkage. A variety of issues are addressed including: * the views and philosophy of Abdullah Ocalan * the successes and failures of the PKK in bringing about the Kurdish opposition in Turkey * the role of PKK's philosophy of recruitment, organizational diligence, use of arms and other contextual factors in Kurdish resistance * factors involved in the development of the nationalism of the Kurds in Turkey. The text also reappraises the Kurdish movement in Turkey and presents insights into the nature of Kurdish social structure, thinking, and the particularities of the Kurdish ethnic distinctness.
This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new generation of scholars, Akçam has led the effort to utilize previously unknown, ignored, or under-studied sources, whether in Turkish, Armenian, German, or other languages, thus immeasurably expanding and deepening the scholarly project of documenting and analyzing the Armenian Genocide.
Türkiye solunun en kitlesel olduğu dönem 1970’lerdir. Bugün dahi solun farklı renklerinden siyasi hareketlerin, o dönemdeki öncül örgütlerine ve o örgütlerin kitleselliğine referansla sergiledikleri özgüven, bu tespiti hâlâ geçerli kılmaktadır. Askerî darbeye kadar varlığını ve kitleselliğini muhafaza eden sol parti, örgüt ve hareketlerin, darbeyle beraber çekildikleri mevziler ise, 1970’lerle kıyaslandığında oldukça sathi bir siyasal etkiye işaret eder. 1970’lerde Türkiye Solu, solun en canlı yıllarının ve bu “cana gelişin” tarihini anlatıyor. 1971 darbesiyle sona eren THKO, THKP-C ve TİKKO-TKP/(ML) hareketlerinin mirasçısı olan örgüt ve hareketlerle, yeni kurulan siyasi partilerin amaçlarını, kuruluş ve örgütleniş faaliyetlerini, kitlesel güçlerini, ideolojik farklarını etraflı bir şekilde aktarırken, dönemin kapsamlı bir panoramasını da çiziyor. Vehbi Ersan, bu kitapta ele aldığı parti, örgüt ve hareketlerin 1980 sonrası yaşadıkları değişim, dönüşüm ve yeniden partileşme süreçlerine de değinerek, Türkiye’de solun tarihinin daha geniş bir perspektiften ele alınmasını sağlıyor.
Turkey’s position as the only Muslim-majority member of NATO, coupled with its pivotal role in pursuing Western interests in the Middle East and Western Europe, has attracted significant scholarly attention, particularly in the fields of diplomatic and international relations history. In contrast, the cultural and ideological dimensions of the Cold War have begun to be studied systematically only in recent years. In this light, the book is an attempt to present to an international audience some tassels of the complex mosaic of Turkey’s Cold War by focusing on its cultural and ideological dimensions. Adopting a variety of disciplinary approaches, the essays in this collection examine the interconnections between politics and culture, the anti-communist intellectual landscape, and the role of cultural production and the media, questioning how the global dynamics of the Cold War affected political, cultural, and social change in Turkey.