Middle Eastern Studies articles from October 1999

Middle Eastern Studies archives from October 1999

Ataturk and the Kurds.(Mustafa Kemal Ataturk)
October 1, 1999... Is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founding father of the Turkish Republic, to blame for his country's troubled relationship with its Kurdish-speaking citizens? In his foreword to Jonathan Rugman's fair-minded account of the problem, John Simpson,...

Kosovo Revisited: Sultan Resad's Macedonian Journey of June 1911.
October 1, 1999... For the Young Turks of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), whose movement started in Macedonia in 1906,(1) the situation in that rich but unruly region of the empire(2) in 1910-11 was all but reassuring. Although the constitutional...

An Ottoman Warrior Abroad: Enver Pasa as an Expatriate.
October 1, 1999... There are few characters in Turkish history whose rise and fall have been as rapid and as dramatic as those of Enver Pasa. Starting out as an unknown graduate of the Imperial War College, he was only in his mid-twenties when he became the `hero...

Turkey's Participation in the Middle East Command and its Admission to NATO, 1950-52.
October 1, 1999... The object of this article is to detail and analyse the gradual stages in the formation of the British Middle East Command and the admission of Turkey to NATO. After first examining the Anglo-American compromise which permitted Turkey's...

The `Forgotten Alliance'? Anglo-Turkish Relations and CENTO, 1959-65.
October 1, 1999... CENTO was an important alliance in British policy towards the Middle and Near East. British policy towards Turkey and Anglo-Turkish relations cannot be considered in isolation. They were crucially affected by the revolutionary turmoil in the...

The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in Post-war Turkey, 1980-95.
October 1, 1999... If there is one element on which all researchers of Ottoman and Turkish history seem to agree, this is the assumption that the military institution has been the most important force behind the evolution of the social, economic and political...

Determinants of Turkish Foreign Policy: Historical Framework and Traditional Inputs.
October 1, 1999... Turkey is not one of the great powers of the twentieth century. Its geopolitical location, however, has enabled it to play a potentially higher role in world politics than would have been otherwise possible. It holds the key not only to the...

What is the Matter with Citizenship? A Turkish Debate.
October 1, 1999... Fundamental to the establishment of the Turkish Republic was the development of a new concept of citizenship in the national polity that would go hand in hand with the nation-building process. Mustafa Kemal, the founder of the Republic,...

Turkey: Return to Stability?(Statistical Data Included)
October 1, 1999... Since the mid-1990s, Turkish domestic politics have all too often been plagued by a chaotic atmosphere. The most direct origin of this is to be found in the December 1995 parliamentary elections, which did not lead to any obvious governing...