The Republic of Turkey and its Unresolved Issues

This open access book explores the Republic of Turkey's unresolved issues that have persisted over the past 101 years. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to explore the challenges facing the country to critically analyse the broader historical, political, economic, social and psychological dimensions that intersect with these challenges. It offers a rich and nuanced understanding of Turkey's complex history and contemporary issues, covering topics that have often been undermined or silenced, including but not limited to the Armenian and Dersim genocides, xeno-racism, feminist approaches to sexual morality, queer resistances, environmental movements, and the right to the city.

explores the first Turkish century tracks the path to modernization of Turkey collects top scholars analyzing Turkey's future This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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Pinar Dinç is an associate professor of political science at the Department of Political Science and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University.

Olga Selin Hünler is an associate professor of psychology at Acibadem University.

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Written by some of Turkey's best young scholars, this book's engaging research and critical analyses provide fresh insights into the country's recurring problems, from violations of minority and women's rights to attacks on the environment and education, the role of the military and emergency rule, and relations with Russia. The authors parse history for the structures and mechanisms that cause these issues to recur, but also to understand what has changed and why. The book is a rich, easily accessible and eye-opening rethinking of Turkish history that belongs on the desk of anyone interested in understanding today's Turkey and its future.

---Jenny White, Professor Emerita, Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies

Why a century after its foundation, the Republic of Turkey remain a land of massive state coercion and violence, never ending political unrest and impressive economic depressions, denial of past mass-crimes, and praxis of internal and external war, widespread corruption and paramilitarisations? This extremely well-informed and theoretically robust volume sheds a new light on this country’s past and present crisis, but also presents fresh perspectives to imagine a radically distinct future.

----Hamit Bozarslan, Professor and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

This open access book explores the Republic of Turkey’s unresolved issues that have persisted over the past 101 years. It adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to explore the challenges facing the country to critically analyse the broader historical, political, economic, social and psychological dimensions that intersect with these challenges. It offers a rich and nuanced understanding of Turkey’s complex history and contemporary issues, covering topics that have often been undermined or silenced, including but not limited to the Armenian and Dersim genocides, xeno-racism, feminist approaches to sexual morality, queer resistances, environmental movements, and the right to the city.

P nar Dinç is an associate professor of political science at the Department of Political Science and the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University.

Olga Selin Hünler is an associate professor of psychology at Ac badem University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction by the Editors.- Part I: Who owns the Republic of Turkey?.- Chapter 2: Turkish Supremacy and its Discontents: Minorities and Majorities in the Turkish Republic.- Chapter 3: Crime and Non-Punishment: Legacies of Genocide and Denial in Turkey. Chapter 4: Dersim: A Century of State-Led Destruction and Resistance.- Chapter 5: The Scholarly Subject of the Kurdish Question: Knowledge, Resilience and Gender.- Chapter 6: Transnational Alevism: Shaping Identity, Community and Recognition Across Borders.- Chapter 7: The Rise of Xeno-Racism in Turkey: The Transformation of Racism in the Context of Migration.- Part II: Remembering the Past, (Re-)imagining the Future.- Chapter 8: Fractures in Dominant Republican Memory: The 2000s, the Memory Turn and Memory Activism in Turkey.- Chapter 9: Confronting the Shadows: Transitional Justice and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey.- Chapter 10: Emancipatory Space of the Political and Social Movements: Bodies, Meetings and Street Protests.- Part III: Resistance of the Peoples.- Chapter 11: Feminist Approaches to Sexual Morality in Turkey.- Chapter 12: Traitors, Terrorists & Çapulcus: Protests and the Limits of Democratic Politics in Turkey's First Century and Beyond .- Chapter 13: Turkey's Queer Struggle: Digital Media and Nightlife As the New Frontiers.- Chapter 14: What Does It Mean to Win? Revisiting Environmental Movements in Turkey.- Chapter 15: Urban Politics in the Republic of Exceptions: Politics of Informal Housing in Istanbul.- Part IV: Structural Problems of the Republic.- Chapter 16: Political Economy in Turkey: Between Continuity and Break.- Chapter 17: Autocratisation Through Emergency Rule.- Chapter 18: Higher Education Reforms: A Century of State Interventions in Turkish Higher Education.- Chapter 19: The Military in Turkish Politics: The Centennial Balance Sheet and the Legacy for the Next Century.- Chapter 20: Turkey-Russia Relations: Not an Alternative to the West but a Balancer.