Brooklyn College Library LibGuides Home: HIST 3554 Modern Turkey: From Empire to Nation State: Topic 6

Topic 6: The Turkish State, Ataturk, and the One-Party State

October 9-15-16

Feroz, Chapter 4, The New Turkey: Society and Economy (1923-945

Aktar, Ayhan. "Homogenising the Nation, Turkifying the Economy: The Turkish Experience of Population Exchange Reconsidered.”
In Hirschon, Renée, ed. Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008.

Aytürk, İlker. "The First Episode of Language Reform in Republican Turkey: The Language Council from 1926 to 1931."
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 18, no. 3 (2008): 275-93.

Ryan, James Politics and ideology: party and opposition in the late Ottoman and early republican period,” in the Routledge Handbook, 10-23.

Topic 6 Images

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 – 1938). Early 19th century.

Topic 6b: Turkish Historiography of WWI and the Early State

October 21-26

Gocek, Fatma Muge. "Reconstructing the Turkish Historiography on the Armenian Massacres and Deaths of 1915," in Richard G. Hovannisian, Looking Backward, Moving Forward, 2003.

Adak, Hulya. "National Myths and Self-Na(rra)tions: Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk and Halide Edib's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal." in The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 102, Number 2/3, Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 509-527.

http://research.sabanciuniv.edu/289/1/3011800000903.pdf

Primary source: Readings from the Nutuk

Gocek, Fatma Muge. "Reconstructing the Turkish Historiography on the Armenian Massacres and Deaths of 1915,"
In Richard G. Hovannisian, Looking Backward, Moving Forward, 2003.

Adak, Hulya. "National Myths and Self-Na(rra)tions: Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk and Halide Edib's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal."
In The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 102, Number 2/3, Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 509-527.
Nutuk
Atatürk, Kemal. A Speech Delivered by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1927. İstanbul: Başbakanlık Basımevi, 1981.
Reading on Halide Edip Adivar