Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Issue 65 of New Perspectives on Turkey brings together contributions on a diverse set of topics.It is also an issue that celebrates the works of two scholars and commemorates a sixty-year-long process that has shaped both German and Turkish society.In March 2021, the community of Ottoman historians lost a much revered and valued scholar, Mehmet Genç.Şevket Pamuk remembers the life and work of Genç in a memorial essay that opens this issue of the journal.Studies on social policy in Turkey have frequently appeared in the pages of New Perspectives on Turkey.The first article in this issue is one that also contributes to research on social policy.Senem Çakmak Şahin and İbrahim Engin Kılıç conduct an analysis of the feasibility of basic income (BI) in Turkey.They estimate the costs of BI and its effects on income distribution and find that the implementation of BI would reduce income inequality and poverty if financed through a rise in income taxation.The ideological and popular trend of Neo-Ottomanism has attracted a considerable amount of scholarly attention in the past decade.In this issue, we feature an article that takes a novel approach to the issue by comparing Neo-Ottomanism with "Cool Japan."Murat Ergin and Chika Shinohara trace these state-led "projects" in Turkey and Japan and discuss how they are received in popular culture in the respective countries and are portrayed in international relations.The next two papers are on Ottoman history.Talha Çiçek focuses on the experience of Arabs exiled into Anatolia by Cemal Pasha during the Great War to show how the Ottomans sought to design Syrian society according to the viewpoint of the Committee for Union and Progress.Using Arab exiles' memoirs and Ottoman documents, Talha Çiçek argues that while the goal was to depoliticize Arab notable families, this intention had mixed results on the ground.In the final article, Berna Kamay turns to diplomacy in the nineteenth century.She focuses on a legal conflict between the United States and the Ottoman Empire concerning the murder of an Ottoman subject in 1877 in İzmir in which an American sailor was involved.The controversy over the "Kelly Affair," according to Kamay, demonstrates the gray zone beyond international law that touched on territorial jurisdiction and subjecthood regarding the issue of extradition.In this issue, we are happy to reinvigorate the interview format that we have used in the past.
Source: New Perspectives on Turkey
DOI: 10.1017/npt.2021.29
Authors: Deniz Yükseker, Biray Kolluoğlu
Language: English
Topic: Historical Turkish Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4205991007