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Examining the Turkish and Kurdish communities in Germany, this book analyzes trans-state political loyalties and activities of transnational communities and their national and international political ramifications.
Civil Society in the Middle East is a project of the Department of Politics and the Koverkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University. Project director is Augustus Richard Norton (Boston University). While there is wide disagreement about the outcome among those who follow events in the Middle East, there is little doubt that the regimes in the region are under increasing pressure from their citizens. In rich and poor states alike, incipient movements of men and women are demanding a voice in politics. Recent political developments in Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, even the future state of Palestine, clearly show the vitality and dynamism of civil society, the melange of associations, ...
Bugüne kadar yazılıp çizilenler, bir-iki ufak hadise dışında ortamın güllük gülistanlık, herkesin durumdan hoşnut olduğuna işaret ediyordu. Resmî tarihçilerin çizdiği bu “mutluluk tablosu”na cemaatin ileri gelenlerinin katkısı da azımsanamazdı. Lozan Antlaşması’nın kendilerine tanıdığı haklardan feragat etmeye zorlanmşlar, “eğer vatandaşsan Türkçe konuş!” dayatmalarına ses çıkarmamışlar, Trakya’da evlerinin, işyerlerinin yağmalanmasını sineye çekmişler, ihtiyat olarak askere alınmalarına bile eyvallah demişler, Varlık Vergisi’yle servetlerine el konulmasına bile ses çıkarmamışlardı. Ne de olsa bunlar münferit “vaka”l...
Leading scholars assembled by the Civil Society in the Middle East program provide lucid, informed essays on the quality of political life, weighing the role of civil society and assessing the prospects for political reform in the Middle East.
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Model Citizens of the State: The Jews of Turkey during the Multi-Party Period is about the history of the Turkish Jews from 1950 to present. By using unpublished primary sources as well as secondary sources, the book describes the struggle of Turkish Jews for the application of their constitutional rights, their fight against anti-Semitism and the indifferent attitude of the Turkish establishment to these problems. Finally, it describes Turkish Jewish leadership’s involvement in the lobbying efforts on behalf of the Turkish Republic against the acceptance of resolutions in the U.S. Congress recognizing the Armenian Genocide.