Historical Turkish Studies

This article considers the sources of long-term economic growth for Turkey over the period 1880–2005. The period in question covers the decline and eventual dissolution of the former Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the new Turkish Republic in 1923. Hence, the article provides a unique look at the growth experience…

• ORHAN ALPAY FİLİZTEKİN

Turkey's foreign minister was the first intellectual to devise a rationalistic and pragmatic Islamist foreign policy. Five years in office have exposed a huge gap between his ambitions and the country's ability to achieve them.

• BEHLÜL ÖZKAN

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• YASİN KILIÇ

The paper considers the broad economic and political shifts in Turkey in the AKP’s post-2011 phase. The ‘reactive state’ model developed to understand Turkey’s political economic transitions is relevant to the new era of ‘developmentalism’ with authoritarian features. Global shifts coupled with important domestic poli…

• ŞAKİR ZİYA ÖNİŞ

The loss of reform momentum and rising authoritarianism during the most recent phase of AKP government indicate that Turkish democracy is in crisis. Although the Gezi protests emerged as a movement from below reacting to the rising authoritarianism of the AKP government, it did not turn into an organised and sustainab…

• ŞAKİR ZİYA ÖNİŞ

This article focuses on the political economy of Turkey in the 1990s to illustrate the importance of analysing economic variables that intersect with the quality of political democracy. In 1989, the debt‐ridden state moved to systematically and completely deregulate Turkey’s financial markets. Together with the ongoin…

• ALP ERİNÇ YELDAN

Employing the four categories of change as defined by Charles Hermann and the insight of Walter Carlsneas that the dynamic between structure and agency causally condition each over time, the article conceptualizes change in Turkish foreign policy under the AKP. This theoretical analysis of Turkey's foreign policy allo…

Starting with the late eighteenth century military reforms, continuing with the Tanzimat Decree of 1839, the Second Meşrutiyet in 1908 and the Kemalist Revolution in 1923, modernization in Turkey h...

• METİN YÜKSEL

Turkey initiated an extensive dis-inflation program in December 1999 backed and supervised by The International Monetary Fund (IMF). The program aimed at decreasing the inflation rate to a single digit by the end of 2002. It exclusively relied on a nominally pegged (anchored) exchange rate system for dis-inflation and…

• ALP ERİNÇ YELDAN

Celebrating the World Women's Day and initiating a conference for promoting Turkey's integration to Europe on the one hand, and discussing the discrimination against women on the ground of human rights and even harbouring the radical protest from left-wing as well as the Islamist women on the other, the women auxiliar…

• FATMA TÜTÜNCÜ

Despite growing interest among both Byzantinists and Ottoman scholars in the respective long-distance commercial ventures of Byzantine Greek and Ottoman Muslim merchants, studies focusing on the trade relations between these two groups have not yet been undertaken. This article, which examines some sources that docume…

• NEFİSE NEVRA NECİPOĞLU

This paper sheds light on the Village Institutes experience in Turkey from the late 1930s to the mid‐1940s. The Institutes have given rise to many academic and political controversies, and have remained an issue of confusion. This was owing partly to the lack of understanding of the real nature of the growing interest…

• MEHMET ASIM KARAÖMERLİOĞLU