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Education in Turkey
This book represents a major study of the development and present state of education in Turkey. Turkey offers a unique context for studying education because of the tensions that exist between secularization and Islam, top-down social engineering and democratization, and economic growth and social justice. Education in Turkey brings together some of the leading educationalists in Turkey, as well as a number of scholars from other disciplines. The topics covered include the development and structure of primary, secondary, vocational and adult education, the role of education in shaping citizenship and national identity, human capital, economic growth and educational inequalities. This significant volume will be of particular interest to policy makers as well as researchers and students in education, economics, politics, and Turkish studies.
Turkish Politics and the Military
Turkey's geographical position, between the Middle East and Europe and at the centre of the current upheavals in the USSR and the Balkans, has led to a reawakening of interest in its international standing. Meanwhile its domestic politics are of increasing interest and Turkey seems to have become a model for Liberal Democracy in Central Asia. David Hale focuses on the role of the military in contemporary politics. He author argues that the military has behaved quite differently from its counterparts in other third world states: it has acted in some degree as a guardian of the state, committed to economic and social modernisation. The book places contemporary politics in perspective by lookin...
İsmet İnönü
This highly original study of a Turkish statesman can be read as an introduction into Turkish politics. In his very clearly written and stimulating political biography of İsmet İnönü, Metin Heper presents to the reader a highly motivated, self-reflecting and self-conscious political leader. İsmet İnönü played a critical role in the founding of the Turkish Republic, further promoting Westernization, and the transition to and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey. This volume is the first treatise on this remarkable statesman in any Western language. It challenges such orthodox views on İnönü as his having played second fiddle vis-a-vis Ataturk and his having been a power-hungry politician with an authoritarian bend of mind. It is suggested that İnönü complemented Ataturk, and that, over time, he adopted liberal political views while remaining a staunch guardian of the premises such as secularism upon which the Turkish Republic rested. It is also argued that if his compatriots had paid closer attention to İnönü, they would have a more liberal conception of democracy and, at the same time, in politics they would have acted more prudently.
The Weight of the Past
The 12 September 1980 coup represented a ""milestone"" in Turkey, the consequences of which have shadowed the lives of the peoples of Turkey for more than thirty years. The coup was instrumental in the profound economic, political and social transformation of the country, while, on the other hand, it aimed at destroying any public opposition deemed likely to jeopardise the course of this transformation. The remembrance of the period as laden with experiences of profound transformation, alongsid ...
Başlangıçtan Bugüne Fransızcadan Türkçeye Yapılmış Çeviriler ile Fransız Düşünürler, Yazarlar, Sanatçılar Üzerine Türkçe Yayınları İçeren Bir Kaynakça Denemesi
Çeviriler, kültürler arasında yaşanan siyasal, toplumsal, sanatsal, yazınsal, düşünsel ilişkilerin bir aynası niteliğindedirler. Çeviri etkinliği, özellikle, Osmanlı imparatorluğu ile Fransa krallığı gibi başlangıçta iki karşıt inanç, düşünce, yaşam olgusu sergileyen, iki kutup oluşturan toplumlar söz konusu olduğunda da, doğal olarak, bir tarihsel veri niteliği almaktadır. Çeviri kaynakçaları bu ilişkilerin başlangıç ve gelişim süreçleri ile zaman içindeki konumlarını tüm özellikleriyle sergileyen belgelerdir. Sansürlenme, duraklatılma, engellenme, yasaklanma süreçlerini, dolayısıyla çevirinin yapıldığı bağlamın tarihsel konumunu da satır aralarında vererek. Bu kitap, Fransızcadan Türkçeye (Cumhuriyete kadar Osmanlıcaya) değişik alanlarda yapılmış ve yayınlanmış çeviriler, sahnelenmiş çeviri oyunlar ile Türkçe olarak Fransız yazarlar, düşünürler, kuramcılar, sanatçılar, kurumlar… üzerine yazılmış ve yayınlanmış kitapları ve makaleleri yazar adı sırasına göre aktarmaktadır.
Demirel
Süleyman Demirel... Türkiye’nin 1960’lardan 2000’lere uzanan siyasal tarihinin en önemli figürüydü. Bu tarihsel dönemde DP’nin Su İşleri Müdürlüğü’nden Cumhurbaşkanlığı’na uzun bir yol kat etti. Neredeyse “hep başbakan”dı. Kurduğu 7 hükümetin 2’si askerî darbeyle devrildi; her iki darbeyi de atlatıp siyasal hayatına devam edebildi. 1960’ların, 1970’lerin, 1980’lerin ve 1990’ların siyasi zeminini tahkim etmişti; iktisadi hayatının da fikir babasıydı. Anti-komünizmle sarmalanmış bir sağ siyaset aklının, propaganda biçiminin ve demagojiyi de ihmal etmeyen bir söyleyişin ya da söylemeyişin erbabı...
The United States and Turkey's Path to Europe
Turkey’s relations with the European Union is one of the most enigmatic topics in the European Studies literature. This country, kept at bay by Europeans for centuries, once came unexpectedly close to full-membership. The progress Turkey recorded in its European quest is difficult to account for with either Turkey’s performance or the positive attitude of the Europeans towards Turkey. In this book, Armağan Emre Çakır chronicles over six decades of US involvement in EU-Turkey relations. Shedding new light on the reasons, characteristics, transformation and relative importance of the US influence on Turkey-EU relations, he argues that Turkey’s quest for EU membership would not have advanced this far without the support from the United States. Çakır’s hypotheses and findings are grounded in original research that, among other things, includes interviews conducted on both sides of the Atlantic with key players, archival material and newspaper articles. The valuable insights presented in this book make for a much needed alternative history of this volatile relationship.
The Politics of Turkish Democracy
The history of Turkey's difficult transition to a multi-party political system.
The Ottoman Mobilization of Manpower in the First World War
The Ottoman Mobilization of Manpower in the First World War offers a multi-faceted story of how the Ottoman Empire tried to cope with the challenges of permanent mobilization under total war conditions which reshaped state-society relations. By focusing mainly on Anatolia and the Muslim population, Mehmet Beşikçi argues that the conditions of mobilization pushed the Ottoman state to become more centralized, authoritarian and nationalist, but the increasing dependence on people paradoxically also enlarged their space of action vis-à-vis state authority. The book demonstrates that people’s responses to the state’s needs constituted a wide spectrum ranging from voluntary support to open resistance such as desertion. In turn, the state responded by revising its mobilization policies and reformulating new mechanisms of control at the local level.
Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State
During the formation of the Turkish national movement, while Istanbul was under British, French, and Italian occupation, a distinct factional split emerged. One side supported the Ottoman sultanate’s sovereignty, while the other championed a populist, republican path. An Istanbul at the Threshold of Nation State contextualizes this history of coalition, political disintegration, and power struggles in Turkey between 1918 and 1923 to highlight the rise of anti-communist movements and the emergence of national labor and merchant confederations that formed xenophobic, Christian exclusionary policies in the 1920s and 30s.
