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Free Download Bilge Yesil, "Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Counter-Hegemony to Reshape the Global Communication Order "
English | ISBN: 0252087992 | 2024 | 250 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to project Turkey as a rising player and counter foreign criticism of its authoritarian practices. Bilge Yesil examines the AKP’s English-language communication apparatus, focusing on its objectives and outcomes, the idea-generating framework that undergirds it, and the implications of its activities. She also analyzes the decolonial and pan-Islamist messages AKP-sponsored outlets deploy to position Turkey as a burgeoning great power opposed to imperialism and claiming to be the voice of oppressed Muslims around the world. As the AKP wields this rhetoric to further its geopolitical and economic goals, media outlets pursue their own objectives by obfuscating facts with identity politics, demonizing the West to aggrandize the East and rallying Muslims under Turkey’s purportedly benevolent leadership.

Free Download Husrev Tabak, "The Kosovar Turks and Post-Kemalist Turkey: Foreign Policy, Socialization and Resistance"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1784537373 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 1.3 mb
Even before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Turkic communities, living in states newly independent from Ottoman rule, were ‘protected’ by the Ottomans. With the creation of the new Turkish Republic, the notion of ‘Outside Turks’ became embedded in a new foreign policy which aimed to unite these communities, with whom Kemalist Turkey claimed to share ethnic origin, to the homeland. After 1980, and particularly during the Justice and Development Party rule, the country’s domestic agenda, however, was transformed to imagine Outside Turks along cultural and religious lines, rather than in a purely ethnic sense. Husrev Tabak provides a foreign policy analysis to account for this vital shift, arguing that four post-Kemalist norms are responsible: Ottomania, de-ethnicized nationhood, Turkish Islam and Islamic Internationalism. By focusing on the case of the Kosovar Turks, the book reveals that the post-Kemalist move to re-imagine Outside Turkish communities was largely counterproductive. In losing Turkey as a secure point of reference for their ethnic identity, these communities began to fashion a nationalism which gained a reactionary character.The Kosovar Turks now more vehemently embrace Kemalist attitudes and discourses and their sense of Turkish ethnicity has been sharpened.

Free Download Husrev Tabak, "The Kosovar Turks and Post-Kemalist Turkey: Foreign Policy, Socialization and Resistance"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1784537373 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 1.3 mb
Even before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Turkic communities, living in states newly independent from Ottoman rule, were ‘protected’ by the Ottomans. With the creation of the new Turkish Republic, the notion of ‘Outside Turks’ became embedded in a new foreign policy which aimed to unite these communities, with whom Kemalist Turkey claimed to share ethnic origin, to the homeland. After 1980, and particularly during the Justice and Development Party rule, the country’s domestic agenda, however, was transformed to imagine Outside Turks along cultural and religious lines, rather than in a purely ethnic sense. Husrev Tabak provides a foreign policy analysis to account for this vital shift, arguing that four post-Kemalist norms are responsible: Ottomania, de-ethnicized nationhood, Turkish Islam and Islamic Internationalism. By focusing on the case of the Kosovar Turks, the book reveals that the post-Kemalist move to re-imagine Outside Turkish communities was largely counterproductive. In losing Turkey as a secure point of reference for their ethnic identity, these communities began to fashion a nationalism which gained a reactionary character.The Kosovar Turks now more vehemently embrace Kemalist attitudes and discourses and their sense of Turkish ethnicity has been sharpened.

Free Download Ramazan Aras, "The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey: Political Violence, Fear and Pain"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367410389, 0415824184 | PDF | pages: 241 | 3.1 mb
The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey examines political violence, the politics of fear and the Kurdish experience of pain through an analysis of life stories, personal narratives and testimonies of Kurdish subjects in contemporary Turkey. It traces the physical and psychological impacts of the war between the state security forces and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) guerrillas in the last three decades, in Kurdish populated areas in the south-eastern part of Turkey.

Free Download Caner Tekin, "Debating Turkey in Europe: Identities and Concepts"
English | ISBN: 3110611686 | 2019 | 276 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In contemporary history, a much-debated issue has been whether European nations have a common identity and what relevance the European Union has for a shared definition of Europeanness. The present book examines the link between historical conceptions of Europe and the contestations over Turkey’s compatibility with the European Union during the 2000s.

Free Download Bülent Aras, "Turkey’s State Crisis: Institutions, Reform, and Conflict "
English | ISBN: 0815637489 | 2022 | 176 pages | AZW3 | 4 MB
What accounts for the regression of Turkey’s stature from a "model" country to one riddled with state crisis and conflict? Unable to adapt to the challenges of the era and failing to respond to ethnic and multicultural political demands for reform, the Turkish state has resisted change and stuck to its ideological roots stemming from the 1930s. In Turkey’s State Crisis, Aras delves into the historical, political, and geopolitical background of the country’s decline. In an effort to delineate the origin of the crisis, Aras investigates several perspectives: the political elites’ attempt to change the administrative system to create a performance-oriented one; the bureaucracy’s response, concerns, and resistance to change; the state’s conflict resolution capacity; and the transformation of foreign/security policy. Providing a comprehensive portrait of the Turkish state’s turmoil, Aras creates a blueprint for the ways in which much-needed reforms can break vicious cycles of political polarization, rising authoritarianism, and weak state institutions.

Free Download Dimitar Bechev, "Turkey Under Erdogan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West"
English | ISBN: 0300247885 | 2022 | 280 pages | PDF | 4 MB
An incisive account of Erdoğan’s Turkey-showing how its troubling transformation may be short-lived

Free Download Ece Temelkuran, Zeynep Beler, "Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy"
English | 2016 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 1783608900, 1783608897 | PDF | 22,4 mb
Starting with the basic question "what is this place?", award-winning journalist and novelist Ece Temelkuran guides us through her "beloved country". In challenging the authoritarian AKP government – for which she lost her job as a journalist – Temelkuran draws strength and wisdom from people, places and artistic expression.

Free Download DK Eyewitness, "DK Eyewitness Turkey: 2016 (Travel Guide)"
English | 2016 | pages: 422 | ISBN: 146544050X, 0241208211 | PDF | 82,6 mb
DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Turkey will lead you straight to the best attractions this beautiful part of the world has to offer. Visit Hagia Sophia, experience the hot springs of Pamukkale, and explore the country region-by-region – from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside.

Free Download G. R. Berridge, "British Diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the Present: A Study in the Evolution of the Resident Embassy"
English | 2009 | pages: 385 | ISBN: 900417639X | PDF | 2,8 mb
This book describes the evolution of the component elements of the British Embassy in Turkey up to the First World War. It then explains why, without changing radically except in its communications, it remained indispensable to British diplomacy in Turkey afterwards.