Middle Eastern Studies articles from April 1996

Middle Eastern Studies archives from April 1996

The last chroniclers of the Mabeyn. (Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... In Ottoman history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the word mabeyn(1) is used to represent the Palace bureaucratic establishment. It was probably during the reign of the sultan Selim III that the mabeyn emerged as an organized palace...

Young Turk assessments of international politics, 1906-9.(Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... Although scholarly interest has focused on the Young Turks' organizational structure end their internal politics, no attempt has been made to analyse the main components, basic motives and aims that influenced the external policies pursued by...

Turkish settlement and the Caucasus, 1918-20.(Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... The end of the First World War resulted in political turmoil, creating a power vacuum in the region from the Balkans to Central Asia. The domination of the whole area passed from the Ottoman and German armies to the British and their allies. With...

Western defence developments and Turkey's search for security in 1948.(Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... The year 1948 began with clear signs that the West was heading towards a collective security arrangement. On January 22 Ernest Bevin delivered to the House of Commons the following message: We are, indeed, at a critical moment in the...

The press and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey.(Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... From the second half of the nineteenth century onwards the press played a critical role in Turkish politics. In fact, in Turkey the press came to play too prominent a role in politics and this undermined the consolidation of democracy in that...

Democratic transition in Turkey, 1980-83: the impact of European diplomacy.(Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... Turkey has a history of military interventions and transitions to democracy. The recurrence of intervention and transition to democracy seems to justify the view that the Turkish military is committed to a democratic form of government. But this...

Liberalism, democracy and the Turkish Centre-Right: the identity crisis of the True Path Party.(Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... In recent years there has been a sharp deflation of the left in political societies throughout the world. Accompanying this global trend has been the general acceptance of the primary tenets of neo-liberalism,(1) namely: political centrism;...

Urbanization and voting for the Turkish Parliament.(Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... The Department of Statistics associated with the Office of the Prime Minister of Turkey is one of the country's most active and productive government offices, publishing an extensive range of data. First, we have the censuses which contain...

The paradox of Turkish nationalism and the construction of official identity.(Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... Civilization is a book to be written internationally: Each chapter containing the culture of a single nation. Ziya Gokalp On an ordinary day in 1986, a group of Turkish stage actors dressed in Nazi (SS) uniforms asked randomly the...

The rise of a spontaneous synthesis: the historical background of Turkish popular music.(Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... The essential objective of the Turkish Republic might be described as the founding of a nation-state with a new concept of the Citizen, or rather developing a new culture for people; and this republic has always assigned a peculiar role to...

The Turkish state discourse and the exclusion of Kurdish identity.(Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... The present study emerged out of dissatisfaction with the standard view that the Turkish state discourse is an ideological narrative which misrepresents the Kurdish question and conceals the exclusion of Kurdish identity. This standard conviction...

Small employers in Turkey: the OSTIM estate in Ankara.(Turkey: Identity, Democracy, Politics)
April 1, 1996... This study is based on fieldwork into small employers conducted at the largest private industrial estate in Turkey. It examines the meaning of becoming a small employer, and the sorts of problem that different small employers face in the context...