Ömer Turan
Biographic Data
| ID | 236464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ömer Turan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ömer |
| FAMILY NAME | Turan |
| SIGNATURE | TURAN Ö |
| AFFILIATIONS | Istanbul Bilgi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9545-3843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Quest for a New Paradigm or the Insight from Historical Sociology
This article responds to İlker Aytürk's quest for a post-post-Kemalist paradigm in Turkish studies, originally published in 2015. It starts by discussing some potential merits of Aytürk's initiative, as it might open the way for a critical attitude to the automatisms of certain epistemic communities. Then it offers a series of criticisms of the paradigmatic shift proposal. The first criticism is that the paradigmatic shift proposal interprets the…
The ’68 Movements around the World and in Turkey
The student movement of ’68 was both a major source of inspiration and subject of research for the social movement scholars. One persistent disagreement about studying ’68 lies between the world-system theory—Wallerstein views the movement as “a single revolution”—and the contentious politics approach—McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly refuse to consider ’68 “one grand movement.” Expanding this theoretical debate, this article overviews Turkey’s ’68 movem…
Football fans and contentious politics
This article problematizes the role played by a football fan club-Çarşı-in one of the largest social movements in Turkish political history, the Gezi Park protests of June 2013. The authors suggest that as 'unusual suspects' in social movements, Çarşı's role in the Gezi Park protests can be understood with the conceptual toolbox provided by theories of contentious politics. Since action repertoires, or 'known sequences for acting together,' are k…
From system integration to social integration
The modern republican history of Turkey and its relation with the question of ethnic diversity could be understood via the tension between the processes of system integration and social integration. This article, based on Jürgen Habermas’ conceptual framework, draws the sources of such tension with reference to the Kurdish identity in Turkey since the early republican era. For this purpose, from the 1920s to the 2000s, policies and discourses of …
Open wounds
Open Wounds is a very timely book, published at the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. Geneva-based historian Vicken Cheterian, a Lebanese Armenian, targets mostly the general audience, and offer
The manner of contention
This article is based on an ethnographic investigation of the Gezi Park events in 2013. Starting from the much acknowledged characteristics of Gezi as being its cultural and political pluralism and its commitment to non-violence, in this article we are engaging with two interlinked questions: How has the plurality of participants and orientations been possible to attain, and how could this pluralism be contained without any major conflict at Gezi…
Turkish Historiography of the First World War
Turkish historiography on the First World War remained under the shadow of debates about the role of the wartime Committee for Union and Progress (CUP) government for decades. For that reason, Turkish historians preferred to work on the War of Independence (1919–23) under the leadership of Ataturk rather than the First World War. Consequently, there is not a comprehensive Turkish bibliography of the First World War on the 100th anniversary of its…
Silent Violence
The Turkish Diyanet Foundation
Localizing modernity in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey
Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Chris Hann, Turkish region: State, market, and social identities on the East Black Sea Coast. Oxford/Santa Fe: James Currey/School of American Research Center, 2001, 244 pp., ISBN 0-85255-279-3 (paperback). Micheal E. Meeker, A nation of empire: The Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 420 pp., ISBN 0-520-22526-0 (paperback
Jadidism in South-eastern Europe
Bulgaristan'da Prenslik Döneminde Türklerin Sosyal ve Siyasal Kurumlaşma Çalışmaları
1877-78 Osmanlı-Rus Savaşı'nın sonunda imzalanan Berlin Antlaşması ile Osmanlı Sultanına bağlı, Bulgaristan Prensliği ve Doğu Rumeli Vilayeti kuruldu. Prenslik yaklaşık olarak bugünkü Bulgaristan coğrafyasının Tuna nehri ile Balkan Dağları arasındaki kısmını, Vilayet ise Balkan Dağları'nın güneyinde kalan yerleri kapsıyordu. Bulgaristan Türkleri için yeni bir dönem başlamıştı. Yüzyıllardır sahibi ve hâkimi olarak üzerinde yaşadıkları topraklarda …
XIX. Yüzyılda Kırım, Kafkasya ve Civarında Misyonerlik Faaliyetleri
Rusların 1550'li yıllarda Kazan ve Astrahan'ı, 1722 yılında Derbent ve Bakü'yü, 1783 yılında da Kırım'ı zabtederek Tiflis Krallığı'nı himayelerine almaları ile bu bölgedeki güç dengesi önemli ölçüde Ruslar lehine değişti. 1785'te Şeyh Mansur'un Ruslara karşı direnişi ile başlayan Kafkas kabilelerinin Rus kuvvetlerine karşı mücadeleleri Şeyh Şamil ile doruk noktasına çıkmış, O'nun 1859 yılında teslim olmak zorunda kalmasıyla bir müddet de Muhammed…
American protestant missionaries and Monastir, 1912–17
Le present article analyse les activites de missionnaires protestants americains a Monastir au debut du XXe siecle, leurs evaluations des evenements qui se sont produits dans cette ville entre 1912 et 1917, et ce que furent leurs relations avec les nationalites et gouvernements a la fin du XIXe et au debut du XXe siecle. Il s'appuie sur des documents decouverts dans les archives des Missions Etrangeres americaines et conserves a Harvard
Pomaks, their past and present
Silent Violence
Jadidism in South-eastern Europe
The Turkish Diyanet Foundation
The manner of contention
This article is based on an ethnographic investigation of the Gezi Park events in 2013. Starting from the much acknowledged characteristics of Gezi as being its cultural and political pluralism and its commitment to non-violence, in this article we are engaging with two interlinked questions: How has the plurality of participants and orientations been possible to attain, and how could this pluralism be contained without any major conflict at Gezi…
Pomaks, their past and present
Football fans and contentious politics
This article problematizes the role played by a football fan club-Çarşı-in one of the largest social movements in Turkish political history, the Gezi Park protests of June 2013. The authors suggest that as 'unusual suspects' in social movements, Çarşı's role in the Gezi Park protests can be understood with the conceptual toolbox provided by theories of contentious politics. Since action repertoires, or 'known sequences for acting together,' are k…
From system integration to social integration
The modern republican history of Turkey and its relation with the question of ethnic diversity could be understood via the tension between the processes of system integration and social integration. This article, based on Jürgen Habermas’ conceptual framework, draws the sources of such tension with reference to the Kurdish identity in Turkey since the early republican era. For this purpose, from the 1920s to the 2000s, policies and discourses of …
Open wounds
Open Wounds is a very timely book, published at the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. Geneva-based historian Vicken Cheterian, a Lebanese Armenian, targets mostly the general audience, and offer
Turkish Historiography of the First World War
Turkish historiography on the First World War remained under the shadow of debates about the role of the wartime Committee for Union and Progress (CUP) government for decades. For that reason, Turkish historians preferred to work on the War of Independence (1919–23) under the leadership of Ataturk rather than the First World War. Consequently, there is not a comprehensive Turkish bibliography of the First World War on the 100th anniversary of its…
Localizing modernity in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey
Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Chris Hann, Turkish region: State, market, and social identities on the East Black Sea Coast. Oxford/Santa Fe: James Currey/School of American Research Center, 2001, 244 pp., ISBN 0-85255-279-3 (paperback). Micheal E. Meeker, A nation of empire: The Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 420 pp., ISBN 0-520-22526-0 (paperback
Pomaks, their past and present
Bulgaristan'da Prenslik Döneminde Türklerin Sosyal ve Siyasal Kurumlaşma Çalışmaları
1877-78 Osmanlı-Rus Savaşı'nın sonunda imzalanan Berlin Antlaşması ile Osmanlı Sultanına bağlı, Bulgaristan Prensliği ve Doğu Rumeli Vilayeti kuruldu. Prenslik yaklaşık olarak bugünkü Bulgaristan coğrafyasının Tuna nehri ile Balkan Dağları arasındaki kısmını, Vilayet ise Balkan Dağları'nın güneyinde kalan yerleri kapsıyordu. Bulgaristan Türkleri için yeni bir dönem başlamıştı. Yüzyıllardır sahibi ve hâkimi olarak üzerinde yaşadıkları topraklarda …
XIX. Yüzyılda Kırım, Kafkasya ve Civarında Misyonerlik Faaliyetleri
Rusların 1550'li yıllarda Kazan ve Astrahan'ı, 1722 yılında Derbent ve Bakü'yü, 1783 yılında da Kırım'ı zabtederek Tiflis Krallığı'nı himayelerine almaları ile bu bölgedeki güç dengesi önemli ölçüde Ruslar lehine değişti. 1785'te Şeyh Mansur'un Ruslara karşı direnişi ile başlayan Kafkas kabilelerinin Rus kuvvetlerine karşı mücadeleleri Şeyh Şamil ile doruk noktasına çıkmış, O'nun 1859 yılında teslim olmak zorunda kalmasıyla bir müddet de Muhammed…
American protestant missionaries and Monastir, 1912–17
Le present article analyse les activites de missionnaires protestants americains a Monastir au debut du XXe siecle, leurs evaluations des evenements qui se sont produits dans cette ville entre 1912 et 1917, et ce que furent leurs relations avec les nationalites et gouvernements a la fin du XIXe et au debut du XXe siecle. Il s'appuie sur des documents decouverts dans les archives des Missions Etrangeres americaines et conserves a Harvard
Jadidism in South-eastern Europe
Localizing modernity in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey
Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Chris Hann, Turkish region: State, market, and social identities on the East Black Sea Coast. Oxford/Santa Fe: James Currey/School of American Research Center, 2001, 244 pp., ISBN 0-85255-279-3 (paperback). Micheal E. Meeker, A nation of empire: The Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 420 pp., ISBN 0-520-22526-0 (paperback
The Turkish Diyanet Foundation
Silent Violence
Turkish Historiography of the First World War
Turkish historiography on the First World War remained under the shadow of debates about the role of the wartime Committee for Union and Progress (CUP) government for decades. For that reason, Turkish historians preferred to work on the War of Independence (1919–23) under the leadership of Ataturk rather than the First World War. Consequently, there is not a comprehensive Turkish bibliography of the First World War on the 100th anniversary of its…
Open wounds
Open Wounds is a very timely book, published at the centennial of the Armenian Genocide. Geneva-based historian Vicken Cheterian, a Lebanese Armenian, targets mostly the general audience, and offer
The manner of contention
This article is based on an ethnographic investigation of the Gezi Park events in 2013. Starting from the much acknowledged characteristics of Gezi as being its cultural and political pluralism and its commitment to non-violence, in this article we are engaging with two interlinked questions: How has the plurality of participants and orientations been possible to attain, and how could this pluralism be contained without any major conflict at Gezi…
From system integration to social integration
The modern republican history of Turkey and its relation with the question of ethnic diversity could be understood via the tension between the processes of system integration and social integration. This article, based on Jürgen Habermas’ conceptual framework, draws the sources of such tension with reference to the Kurdish identity in Turkey since the early republican era. For this purpose, from the 1920s to the 2000s, policies and discourses of …
Football fans and contentious politics
This article problematizes the role played by a football fan club-Çarşı-in one of the largest social movements in Turkish political history, the Gezi Park protests of June 2013. The authors suggest that as 'unusual suspects' in social movements, Çarşı's role in the Gezi Park protests can be understood with the conceptual toolbox provided by theories of contentious politics. Since action repertoires, or 'known sequences for acting together,' are k…
The ’68 Movements around the World and in Turkey
The student movement of ’68 was both a major source of inspiration and subject of research for the social movement scholars. One persistent disagreement about studying ’68 lies between the world-system theory—Wallerstein views the movement as “a single revolution”—and the contentious politics approach—McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly refuse to consider ’68 “one grand movement.” Expanding this theoretical debate, this article overviews Turkey’s ’68 movem…
The Quest for a New Paradigm or the Insight from Historical Sociology
This article responds to İlker Aytürk's quest for a post-post-Kemalist paradigm in Turkish studies, originally published in 2015. It starts by discussing some potential merits of Aytürk's initiative, as it might open the way for a critical attitude to the automatisms of certain epistemic communities. Then it offers a series of criticisms of the paradigmatic shift proposal. The first criticism is that the paradigmatic shift proposal interprets the…
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