Erdoans New Turkey
Demonstrating how Turkeys politics have developed, this book focuses on the causes and consequences of the failed coup dtat of 15 July 2016. The momentous event and its aftermath challenge us to ask if the coup was the cause of Turkeys present crisis, or simply an accelerant of trends already in motion, and thus a catalyst for the realization of Erdoans latent authoritarian impulses.
Bringing together approaches from politics, sociology, history and anthropology, the chapters shed much-needed light on these crucial questions. They offer scholars and nonspecialists alike a comprehensive overview of the implications of the coup attempt and its aftermath on the issues of religion, democracy, the Kurds, the state, resistance and more besides. Its effects have been felt in almost every aspect of Turkish society from religion to politics, yet it came at a time when Turkey was already experiencing significant social and political turmoil under the increasingly authoritarian leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoan.
Readers interested in contemporary politics, Turkish and Middle Eastern studies will find the volume useful, as they ponder other cases in this era of democratic retrenchment and global turmoil.
Nikos Christofis is an associate professor in the Center for Turkish Studies and in the School of History and Civilization at Shaanxi Normal University, Xian, China. His work focuses on comparative historical analysis of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. He has published extensively in Greek, English, Turkish, Chinese and Spanish. He is the author of Turkey in the Long Sixties: Left Politics and the Radicalization of the Student Movement (2020, in Greek); co-editor of Cypriot Nationalism in Context: History, Identity and Politics (2018), and editor of War and Resistance in Thessaly: Aspects of its History during the 1940s (2017) and Cyprus, the Left and Colonialism (2020) (both in Greek).
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Erdoans New Turkey
Attempted Coup dtat and the Acceleration of Political Crisis
Nikos Christofis
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Names: Christofis, Nikos, 1981- editor.
Title: Erdoans new Turkey : attempted coup dtat and the acceleration
Other titles: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 99.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 99 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects: LCSH: Erdoan, Recep Tayyip. | AK Parti (Turkey) | Turkey History Attempted coup, 2016. | Turkey Politics and government 21st century.
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Hamit Bozarslan (PhD in history and political science, 1992) is a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of Rvolution et tat de violence. Moyen-Orient 20112015 (CNRS Editions), Histoire de la Turquie de l'Empire nos jours (Paris, Tallandier, 2016), From Political Struggle to Self-Sacrifice: Violence in the Middle East (Marcus Wiener) and co-author of Revolutionary Passions: Latin America, Middle East, India (Routledge).
Rosa Bur is a PhD researcher at the Center on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS), which is part of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy. Her research is on bottom-up articulations of democracy and counter-hegemonic spaces build in the context of conflict, mainly focusing on the Middle East. She has worked as a research associate and teaching fellow at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn, after graduating with a MSc in International Politics from SOAS, University of London. Her work has been published in peer review journals, edited volumes and international media.
Nikos Christofis is associate professor in the Center for Turkish Studies and in the School of History and Civilization at Shaanxi Normal University, Xian, China. His work focuses on comparative historical analysis of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. He holds a PhD from the Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) at Leiden University, The Netherlands. The title of his dissertation is From Socialism via Anti-Imperialism to Nationalism. EDATP: Socialist Contest over Cyprus. He has published extensively in Greek, English, Turkish, Chinese and Spanish. He is the author of Turkey in the Long Sixties: Left Politics and the Radicalization of the Student Movement (2020, in Greek); co-editor of Cypriot Nationalisms in Context: History, Identity and Politics
