Die Türkei gehort zu den Landem, die vom Ende des Kalten Krieges und den damit einhergehenden geopolitischen Veranderungen in Eurasien am starksten betroffen sind. Sie befindet sich an zentraler Position in einem bunten ...

The Islamization of Turkey has been an ongoing process since the 1970s and was exacerbated by the 1980 military coup. The Turkish-Islamic synthesis had been conceived as an antidote against communism and became a salient ...

Objectives: On March 1, 2003, the Turkish parliament rejected a government motion that would involve Turkey in the Iraq war and allow U.S. forces to use Turkish territory in an offensive against Iraq. This decision has ...

This chapter presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book starts from the premise that role theory is a useful framework with which to understand the dynamics ...

Our purpose in this paper is to establish stylized facts of the Turkish macroeconomic adjustments using data from 1969 to 1999. We adopt a traditional a priori definition of business cycles as cyclical co-movements of ...

While celebrating recent efforts to redefine ‘economic nationalism’ by placing nationalism and national identity — rather than the state or illiberal economic policies — at its core, this article takes issue with ...

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This paper provides a preliminary survey of the origins, population size and areas of settlement of the Turkoman community in Iraq. After examining their political status during the pre‐1990 and post‐1990 periods in Turkey, ...