Dimensions of Political Violence in Turkey

"In the Dimensions of Political Violence in Turkey compiled by Güney Çegin and İbrahim Sirin (…), 'violence', which can only be illuminated by the light of other fields, also covers the issues ranging from the formation of historical formations to the redefinition of ethnic problems within the configurations that follow each other over time, to the effects of gender relations on social production." "It makes it possible to look at many problems from a new perspective, from their determination through control mechanisms to the state's crisis engineering at exceptional moments."
Hamit Bozarslan, Sunus


Political violence in Turkey is an established problem, combining the problems of the remnant of the empire with the problems of the emergence of the nation-state. For this reason, it spreads over a wide range of areas, from militarism to ethnic and sectarian conflict, from economic intervention and force relations to gender relations. Dimensions of Political Violence in Turkey brings into play the various examples of political violence transferred from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic and still ongoing, for the analysis of our social history, taking into account the width of the front above: The autonomous role of the army and its capacity to produce violence from the Committee of Union and Progress to the Republic. , 1915, Kurds, Democratic Party, the relationship of political movements - right, left and Islamism - with violence, September 12 as an example of the role of force in capitalism, the "nineties" as a special case of violence, the history of symbolic violence in the academy and the violence of patriarchal mentality... Turkey Dimensions of Political Violence in , reveals how striking our problems are when analyzed in terms of "violence".
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 505

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 505

First Printing Year: 2014

Language Turkish