Turkey in the Cold War Ideology and Culture

by Örnek, Cangül; Üngör, Çagdas

• ISBN13: 9781137326683
• ISBN10: 1137326689
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-07-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Turkey in the Cold War: Ideology and Culture examines Turkey's Cold War experiences from a social and cultural perspective. Analyzing the local impact of this global confrontation in Turkey, this volume complicates the picture portrayed in the conventional studies on the Cold War era, most of which focused on the country's role in the US-led Western alliance. This volume, by contrast, shifts the focus to the contested Cold War culture in Turkey and examines several of its neglected themes, such as international exhibitions, sport and literature, media and propaganda, as well as the reception of US aid and assistance.

Author Biography

Cangül Örnek is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Yeditepe University, Turkey. She received her PhD degree in International Relations from Marmara University in 2010. She extensively writes on Turkish intellectual history, Cold War history and political ideologies in the twentieth century.

Çagdas Üngör is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Marmara University, Turkey. She holds a PhD degree in East Asian History (State University of New York in Binghamton, USA). Her publications in English and Turkish concentrate on several aspects of Chinese foreign policy and Sino-Turkish relations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction - Turkey's Cold War: Global Influences, Local Reflections; Cangül Örnek and Çagdas Üngör
PART I: PROPAGANDA AND DISCOURSE
1. Cold War in the Pulpit: The Presidency of Religious Affairs and Sermons during the Time of Anarchy and Communist Threat; Ceren Kenar and Dogan Gürpinar
2. China and the Turkish Public Opinion during the Cold War: The Case of Cultural Revolution (1966-69); Çagdas Üngör
3. Cultural Cold War at the Izmir International Fair: 1950s-1960s; Sezgi Durgun
4. Engagement of a Communist Intellectual in the Cold War Ideological Struggle: Nazim Hikmet's 1951 Bulgaria Visit; Gözde Somel and Neslisah Basaran
PART II: CULTURE AND SPORT
5. Issues of Ideology and Identity in Turkish Literature during the Cold War; Çimen Günay Erkol
6. 'The Populist Effect': Promotion and Reception of American Literature in Turkey in the 1950s; Cangül Örnek
7. From Battlefields to Football Fields: Turkish Sports Diplomacy in the Post-World War II Period; Daghan Irak
PART III: FOREIGN AID AND ASSISTANCE
8. Land-Grant Education in Turkey: Atatürk University and American Technical Assistance, 1954-68; Richard Garlitz
9. Negotiating an Institutional Framework for Turkey's Marshall Plan: Conditions and Limits of Power Inequalities; Burçak Keskin Kozat