Studies on Turkish Politics and Society: Selected Articles and Essays by Kemal H. Karpat

This book, published as part of Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia series, comprises a collection of articles and essays published in a variety of journals during the past decades, which seek to identify and analyze the main factors in Turkish politics. Political parties, military interventions, international relations and cultural developments are given wide coverage alongside studies on literature.

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Contents Copyrights and Permissions vii Introduction 1 PART ONE Politics Political Developments in Turkey, 1950–70 33 The Turkish Elections of 1957 71 Domestic Politics 104 Recent Political Developments in Turkey and their Social Background 148 Reflections on the Social Background of the Turkish Revolution of 1960 172 The Evolution of the Turkish Political System and the Changing Meaning of Modernity, Secularism and Islam (1876–1945) 201 The Military and Politics in Turkey, 1960–64: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of a Revolution 232 Turkish Democracy at Impasse: Ideology, Party Politics and the Third Military Intervention 272 The Turkish Left 337 Military Interventions: Army-Civilian Relations in Turkey Before and After 1980 353 Socialism and the Labor Party of Turkey 378 PART TWO Literature The Impact of the People’s Houses on the Development of Communication in Turkey (1931–1951) 401 Ömer Seyfeddin and the Transformation of Turkish Thought 418 A Language in Search of a Nation: Turkish in the Nation-State 435 Social Environment and Literature: The Reflection of the Young Turk Era (1908–1918) in the Literary Work of Ömer Seyfeddin (1884–1920) 466 Contemporary Turkish Literature 491 PART THREE Foreign Affairs Turkish Foreign Policy: Some Introductory Remarks 509 The Muslim Minority in the Balkans 523 The Role of Turkey and Iran in Incorporating the Former Soviet Republics into the World System 543 The Roots of Kazakh Nationalism: Ethnicity, Islam or Land? 580 The Turks in America 612 The Civil Rights of the Muslims of the Balkans 639 The Turks of Bulgaria: The Struggle for National-Religious Survival of a Muslim Minority 661 The Sociopolitical Environment Conditioning the Foreign Policy of the Central Asian States 693 Index

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