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İsmet İnönü

The Making of a Turkish Statesman

By: Metin Heper

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İsmet İnönü

The Making of a Turkish Statesman

By: Metin Heper

This highly original study of a Turkish statesman can be read as an introduction into Turkish politics. In his very clearly written and stimulating political biography of İsmet İnönü, Metin Heper presents to the reader a highly motivated, self-reflecting and self-conscious political leader. İsmet İnönü played a critical role in the founding of the Turkish Republic, further promoting Westernization, and the transition to and the consolidation of democracy in Turkey. This volume is the first treatise on this remarkable statesman in any Western language. It challenges such orthodox views on İnönü as his having played second fiddle vis-a-vis Ataturk and his having been a power-hungry politician with an authoritarian bend of mind. It is suggested that İnönü complemented Ataturk, and that, over time, he adopted liberal political views while remaining a staunch guardian of the premises such as secularism upon which the Turkish Republic rested. It is also argued that if his compatriots had paid closer attention to İnönü, they would have a more liberal conception of democracy and, at the same time, in politics they would have acted more prudently.

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BRILL

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9004493131

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9789004493131

Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

By: Metin Heper

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Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

By: Metin Heper

This volume of fifteen original essays examines the role of political institutions in establishing democratic stability around the globe. Leading scholars survey well-established democracies, such as the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and France; relatively established democracies, such as Germany, Italy, India, and Israel; and newly established democracies, such as Turkey, Poland, and Spain. The final chapter explores how political institutions may be connected to democracy for best performance of the political system.

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332

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Routledge

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0429968329

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9780429968327

Historical Dictionary of Turkey

By: Metin Heper,Duygu Öztürk-Tunçel,Nur Bilge Criss

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Historical Dictionary of Turkey

By: Metin Heper,Duygu Öztürk-Tunçel,Nur Bilge Criss

The fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Turkey covers Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey through a time span of more than six centuries. It presents the basic characteristics of the two periods and traces the developments from an empire to a state-nation, from tradition to modernity, from a sultanate to a republic, and from modest country to a country that is already a regional power and further aspiring becoming a country to be reckoned with. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 900 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Turkey.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538102250

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9781538102251

İsmet İnönü

The Making of a Turkish Statesman

By: Metin Heper

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The Making of a Turkish Statesman

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The Gallipoli Campaign

The Turkish Perspective

By: Metin Gürcan,Robert Johnson

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The Gallipoli Campaign

The Turkish Perspective

By: Metin Gürcan,Robert Johnson

The war against the Ottomans, on Gallipoli, in Palestine and in Mesopotamia was a major enterprise for the Allies with important long-term geo-political consequences. The absence of a Turkish perspective, written in English, represents a huge gap in the historiography of the First World War. This timely collection of wide-ranging essays on the campaign, drawing on Turkish sources and written by experts in the field, addresses this gap. Scholars employ archival documents from the Turkish General Staff, diaries and letters of Turkish soldiers, Ottoman journals and newspapers published during the campaign, and recent academic literature by Turkish scholars to reveal a different perspective on the campaign, which should breathe new life into English-language historiography on this crucial series of events.

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268

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Routledge

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1317030842

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9781317030843

Opening the Black Box

The Turkish Military Before and After July 2016

By: Metin Gurcan

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Opening the Black Box

The Turkish Military Before and After July 2016

By: Metin Gurcan

A scholarly analysis of the Turkish military in the 21st century by the Near East policy expert and author of What Went Wrong in Afghanistan. On July 15th, 2016, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces attempted a coup d’état against sitting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Though the attempt was unsuccessful, the TAF would never be the same. In Opening the Black Box, former Turkish military advisor Metin Gurcan offers a rare look inside the TAF to examine how it has evolved in the 21stcentury. With twenty years of experience inside the Turkish military, both on the field and in the corridors of the Turkish General Staff, as well as extensive academic research, Gurcan provides two detailed snapshots of the TAF: one before July 15thand one after. Offering a complete view of this complex institution, Gurcan offers scholarly perspectives on the TAF as a security organization, a social institution and, in the case of career officers, a profession. Gurcan also examines the evolution of civilian-military relations in Turkey over the last decade with a specific focus on the impact of the July 15 Military Uprising on institutional identity.

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314

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Casemate Publishers

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1913118436

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9781913118433

Directory of Scholarly Journals in Turkey

By: Metin Kozak,Nazmi Kozak

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Directory of Scholarly Journals in Turkey

By: Metin Kozak,Nazmi Kozak

Scholarly journals are the capillaries of the scientific world, ensuring the circulation of knowledge. Moreover, scholarly journals guide and indicate the scientific development in an academic field of study or in a country. Scholarly journals, which transfer and spread scientific information, are intended to properly fulfill their functions, preventing the transfer of imperfect or incorrect information to the science world. Significant issues are, therefore, inevitable in the characteristics of scientific studies in such disciplines and countries where the scholarly journals do not fulfill their functions properly. This study encompasses all scholarly journals published in Turkey in all fields of science and other disciplines. The reference questions in this study are grouped under three main categories: the contact and publication information, article evaluation, and publishing information. The number of journals in this present study totals 1,910.

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540

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443874744

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9781443874748

What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?

Understanding Counter-insurgency Efforts in Tribalized Rural and Muslim Environments

By: Metin Gurcan

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What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?

Understanding Counter-insurgency Efforts in Tribalized Rural and Muslim Environments

By: Metin Gurcan

Since 20 December 2001 - the date which marked the authorization of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to assist the Afghan Government - hundreds of thousands of coalition soldiers from around 50 different states have physically been and served in Afghanistan. Roughly 20 rotation periods have been experienced; billions of US dollars have been spent; and almost 3,500 coalition soldiers and 7,400 Afghani security personnel have fallen for Afghanistan. In this badly-managed success story, the true determiner of both tactical outcomes on the ground and strategic results was always the tribal and rural parts of Muslim-populated Afghanistan. Although there has emerged a vast literature on counterinsurgency theories and tactics, we still lack reliable information about the motivations and aspirations of the residents of Tribalised Rural Muslim Environments (TRMEs) that make up most of Afghanistan. The aim of this book is to describe some on-the-ground problems of counterinsurgency (COIN) efforts in TRMEs - specifically in rural Afghanistan - and then to propose how these efforts might be improved. Along the way, it will be necessary to challenge many current assumptions about the conduct of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. Most generally, the book will show how counterinsurgency succeeds or fails at the local level (at the level of tactical decisions by small-unit leaders) and that these decisions cannot be successful without understanding the culture and perspective of those who live in TRMEs. Although engaging issues of culture, the author is not an anthropologist or an academic of any kind. He is a Muslim who spent his childhood in a TRME - a remote village in Turkey - and he offers his observations on the basis of 15 years' worth of field experience as a Turkish Special Forces officer serving in rural Iraq, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. Cultures in these areas are not the same, but there are sufficient similarities to suggest some overall characteristics of TRMEs and some general problems of COIN efforts in these environments. In summary, this book not only challenges some of the fundamentals of traditional counterinsurgency wisdom and emphasizes the importance of the tactical level - a rarely-studied field from the COIN perspective - but also blends the firsthand field experiences of the author with deep analyses. In this sense, it is not solely an autobiography, but something much more.

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Helion and Company

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1911096842

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9781911096849

Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

By: Metin Heper

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Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

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Routledge

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Historical Dictionary of Turkey

By: Metin Heper,Duygu Öztürk-Tunçel,Nur Bilge Criss

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By: Metin Heper,Duygu Öztürk-Tunçel,Nur Bilge Criss

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

By: Metin Heper,Ali Kazancigil,Bert Rockman

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Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

By: Metin Heper,Ali Kazancigil,Bert Rockman

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Westview Press

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0813366925

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9780813366920

Book's by Metin Heper

İsmet İnönü

İsmet İnönü

Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

Historical Dictionary of Turkey

Historical Dictionary of Turkey

İsmet İnönü

İsmet İnönü

The Gallipoli Campaign

The Gallipoli Campaign

Opening the Black Box

Opening the Black Box

Directory of Scholarly Journals in Turkey

Directory of Scholarly Journals in Turkey

What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?

What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?

Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

Historical Dictionary of Turkey

Historical Dictionary of Turkey

Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

Institutions And Democratic Statecraft

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