Alp Yenen
Biographic Data
| ID | 376456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alp Yenen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alp |
| FAMILY NAME | Yenen |
| SIGNATURE | YENEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2259-1484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Is the Cold War finally getting hot in Turkey? The ‘Cold War turn’ in Turkish Studies
Turkey has been largely missing in the new global histories of theCold War. This review essay will argue that Turkish Studies failed tomake a proper contribution to Cold War history because of a para-digmatic fixation on the determinism of the early Kemalist state-formation. There is, however, a new generation of scholars whobegan to recast the Cold War as a formative global experience thatshaped Turkey’s contemporary state of affairs and politic…
Precarious privileges: Glimpses into the post-Ottoman transition through the papers of a Salonican family
As cousins, we discovered a treasure trove of family papers, revealing the intricate relationship between precarity and privilege of our family from Salonica navigating the post-Ottoman transition. Recognising the potential of family history to provide a more intimate and complex historiography, this article offers our initial study of these family papers. By highlighting the challenges posed by the scarcity of such documents in Middle Eastern st…
Petitions, Propaganda, and Plots: Transnational Dynamics of Diplomacy During the Turkish War of Independence
The international recognition of Turkey through the Treaty of Lausanne is often seen as the foundational moment of Turkey in international diplomacy. This article approaches diplomatic history from a decentred perspective. It highlights the activities of various non-state actors and semi-official figures who became engaged in international politics during the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923). They used citizen diplomacy, public propaganda,…
The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies
The assassination of Talat Pasha by Soghomon Tehlirian on 15 March 1921 in Berlin, as well as Tehlirian's trial and acquittal on 2-3 June 1921, have contributed to the formation of conflicting legacies of the Armenian Genocide. Though minuscule in terms of violence and legal ramifications, these events and their reimagination in contentious narratives have shaped a dominant prism of sensemaking in Turkish-Armenian relations. In the imagination of…
Internationalism, Diplomacy and the Revolutionary Origins of the Middle East's ‘Northern Tier’
Through bilateral treaties between Moscow, Ankara, Tehran and Kabul, revolutionary diplomacy shaped the ‘Northern Tier’ of the Middle East in the early 1920s. This article argues that the infamous Young Turk leaders, though in exile after the First World War, remained at the centre of a significant moment in transnational revolutionary diplomacy in Eurasia. Based on a hitherto underutilised collection of published and unpublished private papers i…
Envisioning Turco-Arab Co-Existence between Empire and Nationalism
The idea of a continued Turco-Arab co-existence under the Ottoman Sultanate might appear counterfactual or marginal - if not nostalgic - from the sober vantage of knowing "the end of history". The Ottoman Empire neither survived the Great War nor made way for a multinational co-existence of Turks and Arabs. For contemporaries, however, different models of federalism and multinationalism offered solutions to save the Ottoman Empire and safeguard T…
Elusive forces in illusive eyes: British officialdom's perception of the Anatolian resistance movement
In the aftermath of the First World War, British officials had difficulty understanding the elusive forces behind the Anatolian resistance movement. They anxiously assumed that Kemalists were being controlled by the Unionist leaders in exile and that they were part of an international conspiracy. In this confusion, the fugitive Unionist leaders received disproportionate attention and credit in British intelligence reports, with critical consequen…
Ihrig, Stefan: Justifying genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler
Hitler apparently got it wrong when he asked, in a popularly cited question: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"Stefan Ihrig, professor of history at the University of Haifa, argues in his latest book, Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler, that there was actually a broader awareness in Nazi Germany of what happened to Ottoman Armenians in 1915.Ihrig's book is about how the extermi…
The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies
The assassination of Talat Pasha by Soghomon Tehlirian on 15 March 1921 in Berlin, as well as Tehlirian's trial and acquittal on 2-3 June 1921, have contributed to the formation of conflicting legacies of the Armenian Genocide. Though minuscule in terms of violence and legal ramifications, these events and their reimagination in contentious narratives have shaped a dominant prism of sensemaking in Turkish-Armenian relations. In the imagination of…
Internationalism, Diplomacy and the Revolutionary Origins of the Middle East's ‘Northern Tier’
Through bilateral treaties between Moscow, Ankara, Tehran and Kabul, revolutionary diplomacy shaped the ‘Northern Tier’ of the Middle East in the early 1920s. This article argues that the infamous Young Turk leaders, though in exile after the First World War, remained at the centre of a significant moment in transnational revolutionary diplomacy in Eurasia. Based on a hitherto underutilised collection of published and unpublished private papers i…
Envisioning Turco-Arab Co-Existence between Empire and Nationalism
The idea of a continued Turco-Arab co-existence under the Ottoman Sultanate might appear counterfactual or marginal - if not nostalgic - from the sober vantage of knowing "the end of history". The Ottoman Empire neither survived the Great War nor made way for a multinational co-existence of Turks and Arabs. For contemporaries, however, different models of federalism and multinationalism offered solutions to save the Ottoman Empire and safeguard T…
Elusive forces in illusive eyes: British officialdom's perception of the Anatolian resistance movement
In the aftermath of the First World War, British officials had difficulty understanding the elusive forces behind the Anatolian resistance movement. They anxiously assumed that Kemalists were being controlled by the Unionist leaders in exile and that they were part of an international conspiracy. In this confusion, the fugitive Unionist leaders received disproportionate attention and credit in British intelligence reports, with critical consequen…
Ihrig, Stefan: Justifying genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler
Hitler apparently got it wrong when he asked, in a popularly cited question: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"Stefan Ihrig, professor of history at the University of Haifa, argues in his latest book, Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler, that there was actually a broader awareness in Nazi Germany of what happened to Ottoman Armenians in 1915.Ihrig's book is about how the extermi…
Elusive forces in illusive eyes: British officialdom's perception of the Anatolian resistance movement
In the aftermath of the First World War, British officials had difficulty understanding the elusive forces behind the Anatolian resistance movement. They anxiously assumed that Kemalists were being controlled by the Unionist leaders in exile and that they were part of an international conspiracy. In this confusion, the fugitive Unionist leaders received disproportionate attention and credit in British intelligence reports, with critical consequen…
Envisioning Turco-Arab Co-Existence between Empire and Nationalism
The idea of a continued Turco-Arab co-existence under the Ottoman Sultanate might appear counterfactual or marginal - if not nostalgic - from the sober vantage of knowing "the end of history". The Ottoman Empire neither survived the Great War nor made way for a multinational co-existence of Turks and Arabs. For contemporaries, however, different models of federalism and multinationalism offered solutions to save the Ottoman Empire and safeguard T…
Internationalism, Diplomacy and the Revolutionary Origins of the Middle East's ‘Northern Tier’
Through bilateral treaties between Moscow, Ankara, Tehran and Kabul, revolutionary diplomacy shaped the ‘Northern Tier’ of the Middle East in the early 1920s. This article argues that the infamous Young Turk leaders, though in exile after the First World War, remained at the centre of a significant moment in transnational revolutionary diplomacy in Eurasia. Based on a hitherto underutilised collection of published and unpublished private papers i…
The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies
The assassination of Talat Pasha by Soghomon Tehlirian on 15 March 1921 in Berlin, as well as Tehlirian's trial and acquittal on 2-3 June 1921, have contributed to the formation of conflicting legacies of the Armenian Genocide. Though minuscule in terms of violence and legal ramifications, these events and their reimagination in contentious narratives have shaped a dominant prism of sensemaking in Turkish-Armenian relations. In the imagination of…
Petitions, Propaganda, and Plots: Transnational Dynamics of Diplomacy During the Turkish War of Independence
The international recognition of Turkey through the Treaty of Lausanne is often seen as the foundational moment of Turkey in international diplomacy. This article approaches diplomatic history from a decentred perspective. It highlights the activities of various non-state actors and semi-official figures who became engaged in international politics during the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923). They used citizen diplomacy, public propaganda,…
Precarious privileges: Glimpses into the post-Ottoman transition through the papers of a Salonican family
As cousins, we discovered a treasure trove of family papers, revealing the intricate relationship between precarity and privilege of our family from Salonica navigating the post-Ottoman transition. Recognising the potential of family history to provide a more intimate and complex historiography, this article offers our initial study of these family papers. By highlighting the challenges posed by the scarcity of such documents in Middle Eastern st…
Is the Cold War finally getting hot in Turkey? The ‘Cold War turn’ in Turkish Studies
Turkey has been largely missing in the new global histories of theCold War. This review essay will argue that Turkish Studies failed tomake a proper contribution to Cold War history because of a para-digmatic fixation on the determinism of the early Kemalist state-formation. There is, however, a new generation of scholars whobegan to recast the Cold War as a formative global experience thatshaped Turkey’s contemporary state of affairs and politic…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (6 works) · History (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Historical Turkish Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)