Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies

Abstract: The paper analyzes the main factors leading to the Justice and Development Party’s 2011 electoral victory and proposes that the party’s ability to engage with the Turkish public and its effective governance are the main reasons behind its electoral successes. The AKP’s position could be characterized by “ele…

• ŞADİYE MELTEM MÜFTÜLER BAÇ

This paper is an attempt to provide a political economic analysis of the changing nature of Turkish modernity since the 1980s, especially in the 1990s. Our analysis is founded upon the three years-long research (1999–2002) we have done on the question of ‘the impacts of globalization on Turkey’. The Turkish economy ha…

• BERRİN KOYUNCU LORASDAĞI

Abstract In contemporary Turkey, a growing interest in Ottoman history represents a change in both the official state discourse and popular culture. This nostalgia appropriates, reinterprets, decontextualizes, and juxtaposes formerly distinct symbols, ideas, objects, and histories in unprecedented ways. In this paper,…

• MURAT ERGİN

This paper studies the performance of the Turkish economy under the reign of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP). Most of this period coincides with abundant global capital especially in the aftermath of the Great Recession. We argue that AKP’s economy policies were shaped with the goal…

This article investigates the political dynamics shaping the post-2010 ‘de-Europeanisation’ of Turkey’s judicial system, particularly regarding judicial independence and rule of law. The analysis suggests the limits of conventional Europeanisation accounts emphasising causal factors such as European Union (EU) conditi…

• BEKEN SAATÇİOĞLU

In 1931, an uprising of Greek Cypriots proclaiming “ Enosis ” (political union of Cyprus [with Greece]) swept the island of Cyprus, then a British colony. Rapidly recovering from the initial shock, British authorities seized the opportunity to abolish representative institutions (long considered an impediment to the s…

L'A. examine le role du Premier ministre (1983-89), puis President de la Republique turque (1989-93), Turgut Ozal, dans l'evolution politique et culturelle de la Turquie. D'une part il met en evidence en quoi l'action politique de T. Ozal s'inscrit dans la continuite des projets politiques et de l'ideologie de ses pre…

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• BÜLENT BATUMAN

This volume examines the construction of Turkey's possible European Union accession in French political discourse. In today's France, heated debates regarding Turkey's EU membership are turning into an essential part of European identity formation. Once again, the 'Turkish Other' functions as a mirror for defining not…

The cause of global financial crisis in the world in 2007 – 2008 is the mortgage crisis in USA in August, 2007. The crisis caused an immense instability in markets and gradually became global. Effects of this crisis upon some countries were deeper and more destroying. Greece is one of these countries. It is seen that…

• SERDAR ÖZTÜRK

The paper examines the discourse of UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the Front National on the EU from the point of view of political myth. It is argued that the discourse of the two Eurosceptic parties reverses the founding myth of the EU as a quasi-utopian haven of peace and prosperity following the traumatic experi…

Nezih Erdogan; Narratives of resistance: national identity and ambivalence in the Turkish melodrama between 1965 and 1975, Screen, Volume 39, Issue 3, 1 October

• NEZİH ERDOĞAN