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Turkey
A Past Against History
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English
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2021
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From its earliest days, the dominant history of the Turkish Republic has been one of national self-determination and secular democratic modernization. The story insisted on total rupture between the Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish state and on the absolute unity of the Turkish nation. In recent years, this hermetic division has begun to erode, but as the old consensus collapses, new histories and accounts of political authority have been slow to take its place.
In this richly detailed alternative history, Christine M. Philliou focuses on the notion of political opposition and dissent—muhalefet—to connect the Ottoman and Turkish periods. Taking the perennial dissident Refik Halid Karay as a subject, guide, and interlocutor, she traces the fissures within the Ottoman and the modern Turkish elite that bridged the transition. Exploring Karay’s political and literary writings across four regimes and two stints in exile, Philliou upends the official history of Turkey and offers new dimensions to our understanding of its political authority and culture.
In this richly detailed alternative history, Christine M. Philliou focuses on the notion of political opposition and dissent—muhalefet—to connect the Ottoman and Turkish periods. Taking the perennial dissident Refik Halid Karay as a subject, guide, and interlocutor, she traces the fissures within the Ottoman and the modern Turkish elite that bridged the transition. Exploring Karay’s political and literary writings across four regimes and two stints in exile, Philliou upends the official history of Turkey and offers new dimensions to our understanding of its political authority and culture.
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Contributor: Christine M. Philliou
Christine M. Philliou is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley and author of Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution.
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Contents
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Note on Transliteration
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Timeline
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Introduction
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1. Against Power? (1888–1909)
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2. The Contradictions of Ottoman Constitutionalism and the Remaking of Muhalefet (1908–1913)
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3. The Joke (1913–1918)
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4. The True Face of Istanbul (1918–1922)
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5. Muhalefet from Abroad (1922–1927)
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6. There Is a World Underground (1928–1945)
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7. Muhalefet in the Free World (1945–1965)
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Epilogue
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Afterword
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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