A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey

Table of Contents Fragments from a Century: A History of Republican Turkey, 1923–2023, Alp Yenen and Erik-Jan Zürcher 1923–1932;

1. A Lasting Legacy: The Proclamation of the Republic, Alp Yenen;
2. Anxious Inquires: The League of Nations and the Population Exchange, Gözde Kırcıoğlu;
3. Echoes of Modernity: Nazım Hikmet’s “Machinisation” of Turkish Poetry, Petra de Bruijn;
4. “Foreigners with their Fake Turkish and Muslim Masks”: A Public Debate about Dönmes, Didem Yerli;
5. “Stricken by Illness”: Political Plagues of the New Capital, Onur Ada;
6. “Empowered to Prohibit”: The Law on the Maintenance of Order, Erik-Jan Zürcher;
7. “The Congregation of Civilization”: Mustafa Kemal Pasha’s Speech in Kastamonu, Remzi Çağatay Çakırlar;
8. A Step Forward, a Step Back: Women’ Rights and the Civil Code of 1926, Nicole van Os;
9. “Citizen, Speak Turkish!”: A Jewish Appeal for Turkification, Deniz Tat;
10. An Unusual Letter, an Unusual Opposition Party, Uğur Derin 1933–1942;
11, Geography of a Nation in the Making: The Settlement Law of 1934, Çiğdem Oğuz;
12. A Glimpse into Policies on Spirits: Alcohol Percentages in Rakı Production, Emre Erol;
13. Defining the Program of the CHP in an Age of Ideologies, Remzi Çağatay Çakırlar;
14. Language, Nation, and their Enemies: Linguistic Nationalism, Emmanuel Szurek;
15. Turkey’s “Treacherous and Insidious” Southern Border, Ramazan Hakkı Öztan;
16. Modernizing Attire, Modernizing the Nation: Reflections of Kemalist Clothing Reforms, Sevgi Adak;
17. Mapping Nomadism: The Construction of the Nation-State, Reşat Kasaba;
18. “The Lament of Laç Valley”: Mourned Memory of the Dersim Massacre, Uğur Ümit Üngör;
19. Nationalisation of the Banking System: The Increase in General Deposits, Y. Doğan Çetinkaya;
20. Steering the Economy: Turkey in the Second World War, Alexander E. Balistreri 1943–1952;
21. A Precarious Offer: The Dodecanese Islands and Turkish Neutrality in the Second World War, Onur İşçi;
22. “I am a Victim of the Capital Tax”: The Voices of İstanbul Greeks, Alexandros Lamprou;
23. “Enlightening” the Turkish Countryside: The Village Institutes, Sacit Yarımoğlu;
24. Inspecting the East: The CHP Secretary General’s Views on the Kurdish Provinces, Senem Aslan;
25. Planting the Seeds of Multiparty Politics: Memorandum of the Four, Alexander E. Balistreri;
26. The Future of an Ancient Capital: Henri Prost’s Master Plan for İstanbul, F. Cânâ Bilsel;
27. “What Is to Be Done?”: The Legacy of Leftist Minority Artists in Turkey, Nicholas Kontovas;
28. The Language of Religion: The Reversion of the Ezan from Turkish to Arabic, Ömer Koçyiğit;
29. “The Sincerest Feeling of all the Peace-Loving Turkish People”: Pacifism and the Korean War, Nadav Solomonovich;
30. Beekeeping, Agriculture, and Democracy: The Debate over Cold War Modernity, Nicholas Danforth 1953–1962;
31. “Male Beauty Kings”: Gender, Biopolitics, and Pageantry in the Annals of İstanbul, Müge Özoğlu;
32. “Religion is Attached to the State”: Revisiting Ali Fuat Başgil’s Treatises on Secularism, Umut Azak;
33. Symbol of Turkish Modernity and Bastion of the West: The Hilton Hotel in İstanbul, Hans Theunissen;
34. The Beginning of an End: The Pogrom of 6-7 September 1955, Stefo Benlisoy;
35. Grateful Suffering: On Being an Albanian Migrant in Turkey, Nathalie Clayer;
36. “Actions in the Middle East Are Only a Beginning”: Turkey and the Syrian Crisis of 1957, Onur İşçi;
37. An Early Announcement of the 1961 Constitution: Calls for Reforms by the Opposition, Ahmet İnsel;
38. Mobilizing Youths for Political Change: Codeword 555K, Çimen Günay-Erkol;
39. Opening Pandora’s Box: The 1960 Military Coup d’État, Mogens Pelt;
40. “The Era of Planned Development”: The Founding of the State Planning Organisation, Erwin Dekker 1963–1972;
41. From Temporary Migration to the Struggle for Equal Social Rights: Turkish Workers in Germany, Ahmet Akgündüz;
42. Dreams of Development: Peasantism, Cadrism, and a Disciplined Society, Engin Kılıç;
43. Deviating from the National Narrative: The Workers’ Party of Turkey and Cyprus, Nikos Christofis;
44. The Making of a National Symbol: Necip Fazıl Kısakürek and Hagia Sophia, Umut Azak;
45. The Turkish Queen of the Hippies: Remembering Perihan Yücel , Yavuz Köse;
46. A Fragile Liberal Democratic Moment: Demirel and the Turkish Centre-Right, Tanıl Bora;
47. Contesting Family Planning: Birth Control as a Conspiracy , Heinrich Hartmann;
48. Political Islam in the Turkish Parliament: The National Order Party, İlker Aytürk;
49. Appreciating Disturbance: The Military Intervention and the Autonomy of Universities, Funda Soysal;
50. Imperialism, Colonialism, and Oligarchic Dictatorships: Mahir Çayan’s Revolutionary Theory, Erol Ülker 1973–1982;
51. Connecting Continents: The Opening of the Bosporus Bridge, Gözde Kırcıoğlu;
52. Cinematic Imagining of the Nationalist Soldier-to-be: Little Mujahid in Cyprus, Güldeniz Kıbrıs;
53. Between Modernisation and Class Struggle: Arabesk Music, Kadir Dede;
54. A Forgotten Wave: Socialist Women’s Activism and the Struggle for Gender Equality, Sevgi Adak;
55. Mothers with Sons: Sevgi Soysal’s Critiques of Masculinity, Çimen Günay-Erkol;
56. Revolutionary Martyrdom: The Death of Haki Karer and the Emergence of PKK, Joost Jongerden;
57. Civil War Strategy of the Turkish Far-Right: The Maraş Massacre, Ahmet İnsel;
58. Capitalism after Military Intervention: Vehbi Koç and the Military-Industrial Complex, Kaya Akyıldız.