Browsing by Subject "Turkish Nationalism"

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    Barış Dünyası Dergisi ve Ahmet Hamdi Başar
    (Bilkent University, 2020) Kenar, Gökçe; Kaya, Esra; Parlakkılıç, Gökhan Aytuğ; Gözkonan, Sefa; Dere, Burak
    Ahmet Hamdi Başar, 1893 yılında İstanbul'da doğmuştur. Üniversite yıllarından itibaren ekonomiye ilgisi olmuştur. Osmanlı Devleti'nin son yıllarını ve I. Dünya Savaşının sonuçlarına tanıklık etmesi onun hem siyasi hem de iktisadi görüşlerinin oluşmasında önemli bir yere sahiptir. Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin kuruluş yıllarından itibaren inandığı ekonomi politikasını savunmaktan vazgeçmemiş ve her fırsatta fikirlerini kaleme almıştır. İçinde bulunduğu kurumlar ile görüş ayrılığına düştüğü durumlarda kurumlardan ya uzaklaştırılmış ya da kendi rızasıyla ayrılmıştır. Kendi görüşlerini özgürce dile getirebileceği, başyazarlığını yaptığı Barış Dünyası dergisini 1944 yılında kurmuştur. Birlikte çalıştığı yazarlar ile birlikte siyaset, ekonomi gibi alanlarda görüşlerini yazdığı dergide sosyal konulardan da bahsetmiştir. Çıkarıldıktan 5 ay sonra İstanbul Sıkıyönetim Komutanlığı tarafından kapatılan dergi, 1962'de yeniden yayımlanmaya başlamış ve 1971 yılında Başar'ın ölümüne kadar yayımlanmaya devam etmiştir.
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    Continuity and change in the ideology of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), 1965-2015: from Alparslan Türkeş to Devlet Bahçeli
    (2020-10) Opçin Kıdal, Arzu
    This Ph.D. dissertation offers an in-depth, systematic study of the continuities and discontinuities from 1965 to 2015 between the nationalist ideas and practices of Alparslan Türkeş (the founder and first leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Action Party [Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP]) and Devlet Bahçeli (the second and current leader). To this end, this study focuses on (i) general theories of nationalism; (ii) the historical development of Turkish nationalism from the late Ottoman Empire until 2015; and (iii) whether there are discernable differences between the nationalist ideas and practices of Türkeş and Bahçeli, and, if so, how and why such differences emerged. There appears to be no far-reaching comparative analysis of the nationalist ideas and practices of these two leaders in the academic literature, so this dissertation, using a comparative and historical methodology, provides the first systematic analysis of this topic within the relevant structural context. The dissertation argues that while the two leaders’ nationalist ideas and practices show continuity in terms of the party’s foundational claims, their ideologies have evolved as each leader has varied his emphasis on the ethnic, cultural, and civic components of Turkish nationalism. These changes parallel the party’s tactical needs in response to the perceived threats arising from specific historical contexts. The findings of this Ph.D. dissertation contribute evidence that theories and arguments based on types of nationalism have little empirical traction, at least in the Turkish case.
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    Fikret Eren'in (Kurt Karaca) biyografisi
    (Bilkent University, 2018) Kadak, Öykü; Süt, Cansu; Ünveren, Yılmaz Yiğit; Şaylı, Şükrü Furkan; Kaplan, Eda
    “Kurt Karaca” takma adıyla da bilinen Prof. Dr. Fikret Eren, milliyetçilik ideolojisi temelindeki devlet düzenini konu alan Milliyetçi Türkiye kitabının yazarı, Türk hukukçu ve akademisyendir. Bu araştırma, Fikret Eren'in hayatını konu almaktadır. Araştırmada Eren'in hayatının yanı sıra hukukçu kimliği ve yazar kimliğinin birbiri ile olan etkileşimi, eserleri ve siyasi görüşü incelenmiştir. Araştırmanın temelini Eren ile gerçekleştirilen sözlü tarih çalışması oluşturmuştur. Sözlü tarih çalışmasının yanı sıra Eren'in eserlerinden, Kemal Can ve Tanıl Bora'nın Devlet Ocak Dergah: 12 Eylül’den 1990’lara ülkücü Hareket kitabından ve Eren'in kendi web sitesindeki öz geçmişinden yararlanılmıştır.
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    Mehmed Fuad Köprülü and the rise of modern historiography in Turkey
    (2018-05) Sönmez, S. Erdem
    This dissertation focuses on the intellectual and historical work of a historian who played a crucial role in the emergence and institutionalization of history as an academic discipline in Turkey: Mehmed Fuad Köprülü (1890-1966). Situating his scholarly work and activity within its historico-political context, this study thus aims to present an extensive and historicizing analysis of Köprülü’s historiography and his substantial contribution to the professionalization of Ottoman-Turkish historical writing. It, moreover, treats Köprülü as one of the most important agents of the Turkish nation-building process in the late Ottoman and early republican era, and reveals how his programmatic historiographical production contributed greatly to the nationalist project by providing it with a scholarly valid historical master narrative regarding Turkish history and national past.
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    Rethinking the Turkish center-right in 1990s: erosion or replacement? The case of the Nationalist Action Party
    (2001) Gözüküçük, Yusuf
    Looking at the results of the elections in Turkey in the 1990s, it can be seen that there has been a continuing decrease in the votes of the traditional Turkish centerright parties such as the Motherland Party (MP) and the True Path Party (TPP) while a converse situation has been observed in the case of extreme right parties such as the Nationalist Action Party (NAP) and the Welfare Party (WP). Another striking point about the voter alignments in Turkey during the last decade has been that no party has been the first party in successive elections. These developments led to the questions about whether the Turkish center is eroding, or the extreme right parties are coming to the center. The aim of this thesis is to attempt to clarify the case of Turkish center-right in the last decade in the sense whether there has been a shift in the center-right votes with the erosion of the center or replacement of the center right is taking place, with special emphasis on the case of the Nationalist Action Party. This thesis argues that there has been erosion in the Turkish center-right in the last decade and the NAP obtained some votes from the traditional center-right voters, while maintaining its own voter basis. This study offers explanations for the erosion of the traditional Turkish center-right together with the rise of the NAP in recent years both as a political party and as a political movement