Leading social science journal on Turkey & the broader region. Published by Cambridge Uni Press & indexed in SSCI (Q1, Area Studies, IF: 1.7), Scopus & others.
Join us in celebrating Prof. Ayşe Buğra's new book "Social Policy in Capitalist History: Perspectives on Poverty, Work & Society" with a discussion featuring Tuba Ağartan, Andrew Fischer, Guy Standing & Prof. Buğra. Oct 1, 4pm (Istanbul). Register via the QR code on the poster!
Rural politics in Turkey is a highly contentious field that has garnered significant scholarly attention. In their study, Gurel, Kucuk & Tas examine land conflicts by analyzing peasant land occupations between 1965 & 1980. Available through Open Access.
Great news! NPT has been recognized as a Q1 journal in Web of Science's SSCI index. We extend our thanks to our contributors & readers for making this achievement possible. Congratulations to our chief editors, Biray Kolluoglu & Deniz Yukseker, the architects behind this success.
A set of deadly heat waves are impacting Turkey & the world. Of the many articles we feature on climate change, Adiguzel's work focuses on deforestation & municipal politics in Turkey. A must read on local politics & climate change. in Turkey, OpenAccess!
NPT's success is the result of a collective effort. Our book review editors, Can Nacar & Umut Turem, play a central role in maintaining our high standards. Alongside six other colleagues, they have also graciously accepted the roles of associate editors. We thank them all.
"Düzgün Türkçe" (proper Turkish) is a claim for well-formed linguistic structures and orthography. The fight over it in Twitter, one of the key media of political discourse today, is the topic of our the article by Emre Yagli.
Extreme heat continues to affect Turkey and the world. Ilhan Can Ozen's article "Burnt by the Sun" (2021) highlights the critical issue of heat-related mortality in Turkey, offering pioneering research at the intersection of climate change & public health.
Ramazan Hakki Oztan's article was the third most downloaded article in Middle East Studies for the month of March.
It is part of our upcoming special issue on exile in the late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey.
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The debate on Syrian refugees is once again dominating the news cycle. Kerem Morgul's article, "Sending 'Our Brothers' Back 'Home'," provides a thorough analysis, focusing on President Erdogan's 382 speeches between 2014 & 2022. Open Access!
Our Spring 2024 issue features six book reviews on highly intriguing recent scholarship. The first is by Ebrar Sahika Kucukasci on Mostafa Minawi's widely read Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire.
Turkish TV series became sought-after cultural products & commodities worldwide. Bulut&Winter examine the popular series 'Çukur,' exploring the intersection & interaction of masculinity & authoritarianism w/in the urban spaces of modern Turkey. Open Access
We introduced a major change in our editorial team with the 70th issue. To continue the high quality of our interdisciplinary approach we decided to institute the role of associate editorships. We welcome our colleagues on board. For more details:
Climate change is a meta-problem that needs to be addressed at multiple scales. Dogan, Tekguc, and Yeldan discuss a green basic income policy to tackle this complex issue as a macroeconomic problem. Open Access!
Our sixth and final book review from the Spring 2024 issue is by Kadir Selamet on Eren Duzgun's 'Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations,' a historical reinterpretation of 'Turkish modernity' since 1839 using Jacobinism as the central concept.
Women's care burden is still a major reason for low employment prospects in Turkey & in the world. Cisel Ekiz Gokmen (2022) shows how access to informal & formal childcare & adult-care services increases women's prospects in the labor market in Turkey.
We launched our new Twitter account. Please follow us for recent social scientific scholarship on Turkey and the region.
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New issue alert! This is a special issue on exile in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world guest edited by Alloul, Maessen and Üngör. We are grateful for their excellent work and authors' valuable contributions.
In "Salt of the Empire," Ugur Bayraktar examines how the Ottoman state in the 19th century developed & employed centralized modern fiscal apparatuses to tax salt, a crucial source of income, to address various financial challenges. Important contribution!
Our Spring 2024 issue features a special issue on exile in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world. Put together by Alloul, Maessen & Üngör, this is a major contribution to the field. The intro by the guest editors is Open Access!
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Climate change altered our understanding of history, especially modern environmental history. Baris Tasyakan reviews Chris Gratien's highly anticipated The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier offering such re-imagining.
Alexandros Lamprou, in another article from our upcoming special issue on exile, focuses on the management of refugees (more than 70K people) from Greece during WWII and discusses Turkish wartime refugee policy.
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Gizem Tongo and Irvin Cemil Schick's article on Islamic art and modern warfare sheds light on the critical period of the World War I, War of Independence and early Republican Turkey.
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Recent local elections in Turkey showed how complex electoral politics are especially in large metropolises. İbrahim Kuran's article looks into AKP's clientelist politics regarding Kurdish voters in one of Istanbul's important provinces of Bağcılar.
Part of our upcoming special issue on exile, Charalampos Minasidis investigates the Ottoman Greek Orthodox internal exiles during the Great War (1914–18).
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Part of our special issue on exile, Ugur Zekeriya Pece shows how displaced Cretans became the leading agents of mass politics in the post-1908 Ottoman politics in Istanbul.
It's been more than a year since we lost Prof. Zafer Toprak, our former board member & contributor. We remember him with Prof. Mehmet Ö. Alkan's excellent obituary detailing Prof. Toprak's extraordinary impact & legacy. Open Access!
The third review of our Spring 2024 issue is by Ferda Sayan-Cengiz on Claudia Liebelt's 'Istanbul Appearances: Beauty & the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey' exploring the political relevance of beauty & middle class femininity today.
Our second book review of the Spring 2024 issue is by Anoush Tamar Suni & on Nilay Özok-Gündoğan's The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).
Political homophobia was utilized as a populist tool, Didem Unal argues, at the 2023 national elections. With a critical discourse analysis of qualitative data, Unal shows how gender is a core element of Turkey's crisis-driven politics. Open access!
The fourth book review on our Spring 2024 issue is by Deniz Erkmen and on Sertac Sehlikoglu's highly intriguing 'Working Out Desire' focusing on women's subjectivities through their 'passion for sport / spor meraki' in Istanbul
Another article from our special issue on exile, by Burcu Gürsel, investigates the issues of maternal slavery & the loss of motherland for Late Ottoman writers through Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan's Vâlidem (My Mother).
The Allied occupation of Istanbul after WWI was transformative. MacArthur-Seal shows how important it was in the musical entertainment sector analyzing the local & global impact of the aural encounters of this overlooked period in city’s cultural history.
The fifth review in our Spring 2024 issue is by Cetin Celik on Ilkim Buke Okyar's 'Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons' exploring the visual construction of Arabs in cartoons bw 1876 & 1950.
My chapter "Disability in Intersectionality and Vice Versa" is out! It underlines the term disability can denote either a social position or a socio-political identity, and it can be a basis for entitlements. We must be clear about the intended meanings.
Migrants’ access to healthcare services has been a major issue and a source of political tension. In their article, H. Deniz Genc & Z. Asli Elitsoy investigate the fit b/w migrants' demand and healthcare services provided.