Turkish StudiesPub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2159390
Gül Şen, Başak Yavçan
{"title":"Gender, radicalization, and patriarchy in Turkey: an analysis of women’s motivations and constraints when confronted with ISIS and the al-Nusra front","authors":"Gül Şen, Başak Yavçan","doi":"10.1080/14683849.2022.2159390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2159390","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47071,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78235582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Turkish StudiesPub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2143266
E. Zürcher
{"title":"Three turning points in the political development of modern Turkey","authors":"E. Zürcher","doi":"10.1080/14683849.2022.2143266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2143266","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay investigates the choices made by the Turkish political leadership at three crucial moments in the history of Turkey between World War I and the Cold War. It asks the question if viable alternatives to the chosen route were available, and to what extent the choices made reflected international developments of the time. The episodes looked at are the establishment of a nation-state and of a republic (two separate issues) in 1920–23, the turn towards authoritarianism during the World Crisis (1930–32) and the transition to multi-party democracy in 1945–50.","PeriodicalId":47071,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"435 - 450"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73487817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Turkish StudiesPub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2141624
M. Altunışık
{"title":"The trajectory of a modified middle power: an attempt to make sense of Turkey’s foreign policy in its centennial","authors":"M. Altunışık","doi":"10.1080/14683849.2022.2141624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2141624","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the general characteristics of Turkey’s foreign policy in long durée by introducing the concept of a modified middle power. It argues that its historical legacy, the ambiguity of its regional belonging, and its real and constructed pivotal geography have modified Turkey’s ‘middlepowerness’ and led to its in-betweenness. As such, the Turkish Republic, in its 100 years of history, has developed different strategies that aim to both remedy and sustain this in-betweenness. It is argued that this characteristic has been Turkey’s contribution to global politics. Yet, during the AKP rule, especially since the 2010s, Turkey’s in-betweenness has been undermined, ultimately weakening Turkey’s position and role.","PeriodicalId":47071,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Studies","volume":"113 1","pages":"658 - 672"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80560808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Turkish StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-27DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2138752
Elif Gençkal Eroler
{"title":"An ‘alternative’ imagination of national identity in Turkey: the blue Anatolianists’ perception of culture, civilization, and the west","authors":"Elif Gençkal Eroler","doi":"10.1080/14683849.2022.2138752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2138752","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article elaborates upon Blue Anatolianism as another form of supranationalism with which Turkish nationalism is linked. Having quite different arguments from other types of Anatolianisms and supranationalisms on culture and civilization, Blue Anatolianists ‘creatively’ include the West in their perception of Turkishness. This study investigates the Blueists’ claims regarding Western civilization – as the only civilization – and the Turkish nation – as the ‘real owner’ of this civilization – within the framework of Social Identity Theory (SIT). It explores Blueists’ perceptions of national identity through content analysis of selected works of Kabaağaçlı, Eyüboğlu and Erhat, the core trio of the movement.","PeriodicalId":47071,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"788 - 808"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88624194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Turkish StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-24DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2137409
Ilter Turan
{"title":"Never quite making it: Turkey’s repeated attempts at political democracy","authors":"Ilter Turan","doi":"10.1080/14683849.2022.2137409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2137409","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article addresses the question of impediments to the consolidation of democratic governance in Turkey. Historical path dependence (weight of history), cultural bifurcation emanating from Turkey’s modernization strategy, the legacy of the single party experience, the choice of particular economic development policies, and the role of individual leaders are examined with a view to how each may have contributed to a comprehensive set of difficulties Turkey has encountered in its efforts to evolve into a democratically governed society.","PeriodicalId":47071,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Studies","volume":"58 1","pages":"451 - 475"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73472599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Turkish StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-22DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2135991
Ebru Tekin Bilbil, Özge Zihnioğlu
{"title":"Governing contingencies by proxy: a governmentality approach on social supports in Istanbul under mutual uncertainty","authors":"Ebru Tekin Bilbil, Özge Zihnioğlu","doi":"10.1080/14683849.2022.2135991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2135991","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Contingencies comprise immediate possibilities and aleatory interactions in the form of calculated responses to mutual uncertainties. While contingencies are critically important to governmental policies, yet they have been rarely considered in social analysis. The aim of this study is to analyze how the Covid-19 pandemic as a crisis has been governed both against and through contingencies by investigating the social support measures initiated by the Turkish government and the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM). We gathered empirical data qualitatively from 12 in-depth interviews with the officers of local government and NGOs, supplemented by official documents. We found that contingencies are produced and become residual through configurational interdependencies, such as competition between the central and local government, unemployment, inadequate support, standardization, path dependency, and lack of diversification in need assessment. This study revealed that governmental practices are governed through contingent possibilities and interactions under mutual uncertainty and the politics of crisis management and conflict between local and central authority changed social support mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":47071,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"309 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83076030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Turkish StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-20DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2107340
Paul Kubicek
{"title":"Contrasting theoretical approaches to Turkish foreign policy","authors":"Paul Kubicek","doi":"10.1080/14683849.2022.2107340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2107340","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article introduces a Special Issue dedicated to applying international relations theories to Turkish foreign policy. More specifically, it contrasts structural or neo-realist approaches with ideational or constructivist ones, suggests general strengths and shortcomings in each, and briefly suggests how both might apply to TFP. It also introduces the eight substantive articles in the Special Issue.","PeriodicalId":47071,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Studies","volume":"73 1","pages":"645 - 658"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75038746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Turkish StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-10DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2126935
Kerem Yıldırım
{"title":"Who receives clientelistic benefits? Social identity, relative deprivation, and clientelistic acceptance among Turkish voters","authors":"Kerem Yıldırım","doi":"10.1080/14683849.2022.2126935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2126935","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Why do voters accept clientelism? Previous research suggests that poorer voters are more likely to accept clientelistic benefits. However, identities may moderate the effect of poverty through identity-based economic comparisons across groups. The role identity plays in partisanship, and dense ethnic identity networks may make it easier for parties to enforce clientelism among specific groups. This paper presents evidence from a survey experiment in Turkey to argue that politicized Kurdish ethnic identity, combined with heightened perceptions of relative economic deprivation, explains why certain voter groups are more likely to accept clientelism. Additionally, experimental evidence shows that support for clientelism may depend on the quality of benefits rather than quantity. Focusing only on the amount of resources or the recipients’ economic conditions may fail to explain why certain voters accept clientelism more in the Turkish context.","PeriodicalId":47071,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"231 - 257"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75748586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Turkish StudiesPub Date : 2022-10-04DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2126767
Digdem Soyaltin-Colella
{"title":"When does bureaucracy function in autocratizing regimes? the court of auditors in Turkey","authors":"Digdem Soyaltin-Colella","doi":"10.1080/14683849.2022.2126767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2126767","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Turkey has experienced a radical political transformation within the last decade. The promising reforms of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in its early years have gradually given way to autocratic politics. The transition to a presidential regime has further widened the executive’s control over the institutional checks and bureaucratic accountability mechanisms. Yet, the Court of Auditors – Turkey’s supreme audit institution – has continued to publish audit reports on numerous institutions, including AKP-run municipalities and private companies owned by AKP supporters, and revealed corruption, waste and irregularities in public spending. This article argues when certain domestic conditions (censored public servants, co-opted mainstream media, and suppressed opposition) are met, bureaucracy can function in autocratizing regimes since it does not generate political power costs for the government, but instead provides legitimacy to the incumbents in the international institutions of the liberal democratic order.","PeriodicalId":47071,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Studies","volume":"27 18 1","pages":"357 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87887452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Turkish StudiesPub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/14683849.2022.2119849
Kursat Cinar, Meral Ugur‐Cinar, Ali Acikgoz
{"title":"Turkey’s Republican People’s Party (CHP): A Longue Durée Analysis","authors":"Kursat Cinar, Meral Ugur‐Cinar, Ali Acikgoz","doi":"10.1080/14683849.2022.2119849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2119849","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article employs regressive and spatial analyses to understand the correlates of the CHP’s electoral support from the first competitive elections in 1950 to the present. We find that despite some continuities in its constituency, the CHP’s voter base has changed significantly with regards to key political and social dynamics such as the Kurdish vote, effective number of parties, and urbanization. The findings give credence to the role of political leadership as well as the evolutionary capability of the party, both of which can have important implications regarding the future electoral trajectory of the party and of Turkey’s political regime.","PeriodicalId":47071,"journal":{"name":"Turkish Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":"205 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74313684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}