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From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan
How does a people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan (Arabic for “birthplace” or “homeland”) from the Ottoman period—when it signified a certain territorial integrity and imperial ideology—through its acquisition of religious undertones and its evolution alongside the concept of millet (nation), Behlül Özkan engages readers in the fascinating ontology of Turkey’s protean imagining of its nationhood and the construction of a modern national-territorial consciousness.
Commentaries on International Law and Diplomacy
The epic work, Commentaries on International Law and Diplomacy is a well researched book which contains commentaries on world affairs. The book takes a multi-disciplinary approach to examing events of topical in contemporary international society. The topics contained in the book cover American Diplomacy, Soviet/Russian Diplomacy, China, European politics, African affairs and other issues of interest to diplomats, students of law and diplomacy, Ministries of Foreign Affairs, International Organizations and anyone with an intellectual habit of mind. It will interest a universal audience. The commentaries are presented in readable style with witty remarks that makes the book a must read material.
Turkish Nomad
Here, Jayne L. Warner has created a unique biographical tapestry that illuminates not only the life of one of Turkey's leading literary and cultural authorities, but also the emergence of a republic in his native country, and sheds new light on the history of one of the world's great cities. Sumptuously illustrated throughout with evocative period pictures of Istanbul, Turkish Nomad tells the extraordinary life story of this poet, thinker, and diplomat. As a young boy, Halman surveyed the last vestiges of the Ottoman Empire, walked through the ruins of Byzantium, and grew up in the modern nation created by the charismatic Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Talat S. Halman would go on to serve the republ...
How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk
The modern nation-state of Turkey was established in 1923, but when and how did its citizens begin to identify themselves as Turks? Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkey's founding president, is almost universally credited with creating a Turkish national identity through his revolutionary program to "secularize" the former heartland of the Ottoman Empire. Yet, despite Turkey's status as the lone secular state in the Muslim Middle East, religion remains a powerful force in Turkish society, and the country today is governed by a democratically elected political party with a distinctly religious (Islamist) orientation. In this history, Gavin D. Brockett takes a fresh look at the formation of Turkish ...
Cumhuriyet Apartmanı
Tarihin, yakın tarihimizin aktörleriyle ilgili yüzlerce, binlerce cilt kitap yazıldı. Ortaya milyonlarca bilgi, belge, anı döküldü. Ama bu bilgi ve anı kırıntılarının 'tarih disiplini' dışında doğru dürüst hikâyesi yazılmadı. Öykü ve roman çalışmalarıyla da tanınan gazeteci-yazar Ahmet Kekeç, projektörlerini bu kez devletin derinliklerine çeviriyor ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin yakın geçmişinden itibaren günümüze kadar olan tarih arenasında meydana gelen siyasal kavgaları, kişisel çekişmeleri, kanlı hesaplaşmaları anlatıyor. Bize ‘en uzak olan’ yakın tarihimize tanıklık etmenin için sadece bir ‘tetkik mesafesi’ nde olduğunu göreceksiniz. 'Cumhuriyet Apartmanı' dönemin aktörlerini, tarihi kişiliklerinin dışında, öncelikle 'insan' yanlarıyla ele alan ve onları 'içeriden' resmeden bir belgesel-roman..
1923-2023 YÜZ YILIN SİYASİ HİKÂYESİ
Cumhuriyetin yüzüncü yılı dolayısıyla kaleme alınan bu kitap esasen bir “siyasi tarih” anlatımıdır ve geride kalan yüz yıla soldan, bir sosyalistin gözüyle bakma çabasıdır. Böyle söyleyince “tarafsız” veya “objektif” olunamayacağını ileri sürenler olabilir ama aslında her tarih anlatımı sübjektif ve taraflıdır. Buna yol açan ise bakış açısıdır; nereden baktığınıza bağlı olarak gördükleriniz ve yorumlarınız farklı olacaktır. Bu kitaptaki bakış açısı “resmi tarih” denilen anlayıştan uzak, ona eleştirel bir yaklaşım içermektedir. Dolayısıyla bazı önyargılara çarpabilir ama önemli olan basit veya temelsiz bir öv...
Insight Turkey 2016 -Summer 2016 (Vol. 18, No.3)
The date of July 15, 2016 is a watershed in the history of democracy as well as in the history of Turkey. On the night of July 15, the world witnessed an exceptional and historic event. The Turkish people heroically stood up against the brutal coup plotters; they became an example for other peoples on how to defend your nation and on what is the real meaning of national self-determination. At the same time, they gave a valuable lesson to the Western governments on how to support a democratically elected government. But more than anything, Turkish people proved to themselves that it is they who decide for themselves, for their future. After all, isn’t that what democracy is all about? The memory of what happened on July 15 will never be erased from the minds and hearts of the people who were in Turkey that night. We all lost someone on the night of July 15 –a mother, a father, a child, a friend or someone that we did not even know but we broke into tears when we saw them giving their life for this country.
