For more than nine decades, citizens of Turkey have argued over what “Turkey” is and what it means to be Turkish. Rather than give a particular answer, this collection of essays looks at various figures from modern Turkish history who have sought to define Turkey or pushed back against the definitions that others sought to impose on them. The protagonists of these essays include Rauf Orbay, a contemporary of Atatürk but ultimate enemy of the republic; Yilmaz Güney, an award-winning director and escaped convict; Kemal Kerinçsiz, an ultra-nationalist lawyer and, temporarily, convicted criminal; and Sait Faik, a dying author whose writing captured a fading Ottoman world.

Through the combination of these diverse (and often conflicting) perspectives, these essays offer a panorama of republican Turkey: how it was imagined; how those visions affected the lives of Turkish citizens; and how each generation has offered new definitions of what “Turkey” means.

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PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PART ONE: THE EARLY TURKISH REPUBLIC (1923-1950)

1 / Ninety Years Since ...What? Framing the Birth of the Turkish Republic

2 / The Şükrü Kaya Problem

3 / Imaginary Community? The Kemalist Project and Its Alternatives

4 / Goodnight, Panco: Sait Faik's Final Stories

PART TWO: YEARS OF DEMOCRACY AND VIOLENCE (1950-1980)

5 / Mike Hammer and Sickle: Kemal Tahir and Making a Living in the 1950s

6 / Youth in Revolt Deniz Gezmiş, "The Turkish Che Guevara"

7 / In the Realm of the Ugly King: Yılmaz Güney in Art and Politics

PART THREE: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION (1980 TO THE PRESENT)

8 / The Long Road: Mehmed Uzun and the Kurdish Struggle for Rights

9 / Ahmet Kaya: Witness to the Age

10 / Colonel Kırca's Secrets OHAL and the Legacy of Turkey's Dirty War

11 / In a Deep State: Kemal Kerinçsiz and Nationalism on Trial

12 / "Life Does Not Consist of Alcohol and Sex" Alcohol Bans and the Politics of Modernity in Turkey

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• Hürriyet Daily News - Mayıs 2016