Searching for the roots of present Turkey, by Etienne Copeaux
During the 90s, the war had entered everybody's life in Turkey, even for those living far away from the clashes; war had become an almost everyday “ground noise” made of signs and icons, at the least. It had taken away young men and sent back coffins....
Is the commemoration of the Conquest of Constantinople, with its pomp, military parades, mehter music, beautiful costumes and glorious speeches, the impossible celebration of the ethnic cleansing of the country during the 20th century? (This article is...
Based on the hypothesis of the existence among the Turkish population of a generalized feeling of guilt, consecutive to the genocide of 1915, I reconsider here nationalism and the writing of history in Turkey (even in their excessive characters) as effects...
[This article was initially published on susam-sokak.fr on August 9, 2010] In 1996, the environmental issue became rather sensitive in Turkey; for example, in June, the leftist newspaper Yeni Yüzyıl drew the attention of its readers by publishing a map...
My paper "Nationalism and History, Masks of Violence", a chapter of the book "Collective and State Violence in Turkey. The Construction of a National Identity from Empire to Nation-State ", edited by Stephan Astourian and Raymond Kévorkian (Berghahn Books,...
The Turkish Malaise – A Critical Essay by Cengiz Aktar Published: 9 September 2021 [Mediterranean Politics Series: 1] Paperback: ISBN: 978-1-80135-076-1 Buy from Amazon | Buy from Lulu | Talebe.com’dan al Digital version: ISBN: 978-1-80135-077-8 Read...
or How and why Turkey is made of policies that stand the test of time [This is a modified version of an essay published on susam-sokak.fr on October 19, 2017. It was further presented in Marseille in the frame of a symposium organized by the Ligue des...
April 30, 2020 The great cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, was once the center of Eastern Orthodoxy, before being transformed into a mosque, and then a museum. On 23 March this year, the Muslim call to prayer was once again heard in this...