Editors’ Introduction

Abstract

New Perspectives on Turkey ’ s issue number 67 features five independent articles, a commentary, and seven book reviews. The independent articles, from various fields, all contribute to current scholarly debates in Turkey. Land occupations as a form of peas-ant struggle were a key part of Turkey ’ s recent history and, as social inequalities con-tinue to grow, this subject deserves more attention today. In close connection to this, we feature an article on the unprecedented and largely devastating food inflation problem in Turkey in the last decade. A third subject covered in this issue is institu-tional decision making with a focus on the Central Bank. All related to important topics in today ’ s crisis-ridden environment in Turkey, these articles show the multi-dimensional nature of socioeconomic problems. Another urgent issue in Turkey is climate change. The adverse and uneven impact of the climate crisis notwithstanding, the representation of this key transformation in the media is also important in shap-ing the understanding of and policy making on climate change, as one of the essays in this issue demonstrates. The next research article we feature is on the continuities and ruptures between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic with a specific focus on architectural history. Burak Gürel, Bermal Küçük, and Sercan Ta