Middle Eastern Studies articles from October 1998

Middle Eastern Studies archives from October 1998

Labour Migration and Economic Conditions in Nineteenth-Century Anatolia.
October 1, 1998... The economic and social history of Anatolia in the nineteenth century, or indeed in any other part of the Ottoman period, remains largely unwritten, despite the existence of a growing number of interesting articles and monographs which throw...

The Indian Sojourn of Abdulhak Hamid.
October 1, 1998... One of the many introspective and interesting passages in the autobiography of Abdulhak Hamid(1) is where he lists the multitude of people, starting from his immediate circle of family and friends and extending as far as Shakespeare and Hafiz,...

Collective Action and the Turkish Revolution: Towards a Framework for the Social History of the Ataturk Era, 1923-38.
October 1, 1998... Historians of the modern Middle East will be familiar with the monochromatic historiography of inter-war Turkey, limited to explicating political developments especially those related to the ideas and person of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The...

The People's Houses and the Cult of the Peasant in Turkey.
October 1, 1998... `Only one peasant stronghold remained in or around the neighbourhood of Europe and the Middle East -Turkey,' wrote historian Eric Hobsbawm, `where the peasantry declined, but in the mid-1980s, still remained an absolute majority.'(1) One can...

The Ideology of the Kadro [Cadre] Movement: A Patriotic Leftist Movement in Turkey.
October 1, 1998... As the Kadro movement is one of the deep-rooted influential intellectual movements in Turkey and as almost all studies concerning Turkey refer to the movement and its imprints, it is worth attempting to examine its ideology. The Kadro movement...

The Programme of the Nationalist Action Party: An Iron Hand in a Velvet Glove?
October 1, 1998... The death of Alparslan Turkes (1917-1997) brought to the surface rivalries within the Ulkucu Camia (Idealist Community)(1) which in the early 1990s had led to the division of the party into two separate political bodies.(2) Today, the...

Ottoman Policy during the Bulgarian Independence Crisis, 1908-9: Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria at the Outset of the Young Turk Revolution.
October 1, 1998... There have been some studies about the dealings of the Young Turks, while in power 1908-18, with the Europeans Great Powers, but very little has been written about their policies towards the Balkan states during the period in question. A...

The Activities of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
October 1, 1998... Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Ukrainian people stretch back to the fifteenth century, though various Turkic peoples had been in close contact with the Slavic inhabitants of the lands which constitute the territory of contemporary...

Diplomatic Relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Ukrainian Democratic Republic, 1918-21.
October 1, 1998... The signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between the Central Powers and the newly-born Ukrainian Democratic Republic (Ukrayins'ka Narodnia Respublika)(1) on 9 February 1918 was the first step in ending the war on the `Eastern Front'. This was...

The Never-Ending Story: Turkey and the European Union.
October 1, 1998... The European Union must make some tough decisions in finding an answer to the ever-present question of `What to do with Turkey?'. The matter was more or less settled by the Luxembourg summit of the European Council held on 12 December 1997, at...

Double-Faced State: Political Patronage and the Consolidation of Democracy in Turkey.
October 1, 1998... Turkey has had a strong state tradition in the sense that, from the time of the Ottoman Empire to the present, there has always been a particular category of elite, who acted in the name of the state by assuming virtually complete autonomy from...