Umut Uzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3977863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Umut Uzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Umut |
| FAMILY NAME | Uzer |
| SIGNATURE | UZER U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Istanbul Technical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5828-9597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Secular Spaces in Israel and Turkey
This article offers a comparative analysis of Tel Aviv and Izmir based on their urban identities grounded on a secular modernist ideological outlook and a Mediterranean way of life based on egalitarian and democratic norms. These criteria will be operationalized by analyzing the ideological preferences as well possibilities for alternative lifestyles for the residents of both cities. Due to the policies of right-wing governments in both countries…
Mosque Construction as Nation-Building
https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2024.2408820
The Nagorno‐Karabakh Conflict
https://doi.org/10.1111/mepo.12742
The Impact of Islamist Ideology on Turkish Foreign Policy and Its Casualty
Ideational change in the self-characterization of a state is bound to have repercussions on its domestic and foreign policy behavior. Consequently, the gradual but radical change that has been ongoing in Turkey in the past two decades has had a wide-ranging impact on the way Turkish foreign policy has been conducted. Whereas survival and protection of territorial integrity as well as a Western orientation were traditionally the main concerns of T…
The Şalom newspaper in Turkey since its 1984 language transformation from Ladino to Turkish and the Turkish Jewish community
The linguistic Turkification of the dwindling Turkish Jewish community during the period of the Republic extended to its media outlets. The Şalom newspaper, published in Turkey since 1947, changed its language from Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) to Turkish in 1984. This article takes that change as the starting point for an examination of the place of the publication within the political framework of a nationalizing secular state as well as its recent Is…
On ‘Nostalgia for the Empire
https://doi.org/10.1163/22131418-00901010
The Fascination of the Turkish Left with Palestine
This study analyzes the ideology and worldview of Turkish and some Kurdish militants of the Turkish socialist movement from the late 1960s until the early 1980s based on the memoirs of the protagonists. In these writings, we can observe the exuberance as well as the disappointments of these young militants and their approach to world affairs in general and Turkish and Middle Eastern politics in particular. In their worldview, America and its alli…
Conservative Narrative
Turkish politicians, intellectuals and ordinary citizens usually take an ambivalent view of the Ottoman state. The founding fathers of Turkey, mostly soldiers and bureaucrats in the Ottoman state structure had, for the most part, negative perceptions owing to the loss of territory and defeats during the latter days of the Ottoman Empire. Consequently, republican Turkey endeavored to create a modern Turkish nation that was very much part of Wester…
The downfall of Turkish–Israeli relations
The entire edifice of the strategic Turkish-Israeli alliance of the 1990s collapsed during the last ten years, with relations between the former partners characterised by antagonism and total lack of trust that make a genuine reconciliation rather inconceivable despite the existence of weighty common military and economic interests. This article examines the origins of the bilateral relations, the main causes of its decline, and the prospects for…
Banu Turnaoğlu. The Formation of Turkish Republicanism
https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz727
Ömer Seyfettin—The Balkan Wars, World War I, and His Criticism of Ottomanism and Minority Nationalisms
Ömer Seyfettin (1884–1920) was one of the significant ideologues of Turkish nationalism disseminating his ideas through his activism and his literature by invoking Turkish history. In the journal Young Pens, published in Ottoman Salonica between 1910–1912, Seyfetttin together with Ziya Gökalp laid the foundations of Turkish nationalist thought as well as national policies toward the Turkish language. While Gökalp developed a more systematic ideol…
Glorification of the Past as a Political Tool
Turkey’s radical transformation of state and society under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s republican rule (1923–1938) has been subject to a gradual revision under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government since 2002. The creation of a new state identity has been buttressed with Islamic and Ottoman discourses, which entail a reinterpretation of Ottoman history. This study analyzes the changes in modern Turkey in the last sixteen years within the…
The burden of silence
The advent of Sabbatai Sevi (1626–1676) on the world stage in the seventeenth century caused messianic fervour not only in the Ottoman Empire but also in Eastern and Western Europe. The arrival of
Antisemitism and anti-Zionism in Turkey
https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2017.1398457
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2016.1244900
Turkey’s Islamist movement and the Palestinian cause
The city of Jerusalem and the Palestine cause have been internalized by Islamist movements throughout the world as a pan-Islamic issue. Turkey’s Islamist movement, or the National Outlook Movement as it is known, has similarly appropriated Jerusalem as a cause to be defended against what it sees as Israeli encroachments. On two occasions in 1980 and 1997, the National Salvation Party and the Welfare Party, representing the Islamist movement, orga…
The Kurdish Identity of Turkish Nationalist Thinkers
This article purports to study the national identity of two influential ideologues of Turkish nationalism, Ziya Gökalp and Ahmet Arvasi, their approach to Kurds and their rejection of such affiliations regardless of their background in a predominantly Kurdish milieu. Their worldviews were strikingly different regarding social matters but they both shared a common view regarding the hegemonic position of Turkish identity even in a Kurdish-majority…
Turkish‐Israeli Relations
https://doi.org/10.1111/mepo.12007
Islam and the Politics of Secularism
The abolition of the caliphate was one of the most radical changes undertaken in the Islamic world in the early twentieth century. When the last caliph, Abdülmecid, was deposed by republican Turkey in 1924, however, this caused only wrangling at the caliphate conferences in Cairo and Jerusalem and reactions among a few other Muslim communities. The lack of widespread outcry proves that the caliphate as a political and religious institution had ce…
Nagorno-Karabakh in Regional and World Politics
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict constitutes a perfect case study for empirical and theoretical studies in international relations dealing with the issue of nationalism and ethnic conflict as well as with realism and constructivism. The fact that the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is recognized by the international community as part of Azerbaijan did not change the reality that the region was captured by local Armenian forces with the help of Armenia…
Nagorno-Karabakh—A Forgotten Conflict
In the general area of Southern Caucasus, the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is among the frozen disputes in the region, the others being South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which are nominally independent states, however de facto occupied by Russia. Presently there is a cold peace in all these regions with the potential to turn into armed conflict. The fact that the three historically significant countries in the region, namely Russia, Iran and Turkey a…
Racism in Turkey
2002). Racism in Turkey: The Case of Huseyin Nihal Atsiz. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 119-130
Conservative Narrative
Turkish politicians, intellectuals and ordinary citizens usually take an ambivalent view of the Ottoman state. The founding fathers of Turkey, mostly soldiers and bureaucrats in the Ottoman state structure had, for the most part, negative perceptions owing to the loss of territory and defeats during the latter days of the Ottoman Empire. Consequently, republican Turkey endeavored to create a modern Turkish nation that was very much part of Wester…
The downfall of Turkish–Israeli relations
The entire edifice of the strategic Turkish-Israeli alliance of the 1990s collapsed during the last ten years, with relations between the former partners characterised by antagonism and total lack of trust that make a genuine reconciliation rather inconceivable despite the existence of weighty common military and economic interests. This article examines the origins of the bilateral relations, the main causes of its decline, and the prospects for…
Turkish‐Israeli Relations
https://doi.org/10.1111/mepo.12007
Racism in Turkey
2002). Racism in Turkey: The Case of Huseyin Nihal Atsiz. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 119-130
Glorification of the Past as a Political Tool
Turkey’s radical transformation of state and society under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s republican rule (1923–1938) has been subject to a gradual revision under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government since 2002. The creation of a new state identity has been buttressed with Islamic and Ottoman discourses, which entail a reinterpretation of Ottoman history. This study analyzes the changes in modern Turkey in the last sixteen years within the…
The Kurdish Identity of Turkish Nationalist Thinkers
This article purports to study the national identity of two influential ideologues of Turkish nationalism, Ziya Gökalp and Ahmet Arvasi, their approach to Kurds and their rejection of such affiliations regardless of their background in a predominantly Kurdish milieu. Their worldviews were strikingly different regarding social matters but they both shared a common view regarding the hegemonic position of Turkish identity even in a Kurdish-majority…
Nagorno-Karabakh in Regional and World Politics
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict constitutes a perfect case study for empirical and theoretical studies in international relations dealing with the issue of nationalism and ethnic conflict as well as with realism and constructivism. The fact that the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is recognized by the international community as part of Azerbaijan did not change the reality that the region was captured by local Armenian forces with the help of Armenia…
Turkey’s Islamist movement and the Palestinian cause
The city of Jerusalem and the Palestine cause have been internalized by Islamist movements throughout the world as a pan-Islamic issue. Turkey’s Islamist movement, or the National Outlook Movement as it is known, has similarly appropriated Jerusalem as a cause to be defended against what it sees as Israeli encroachments. On two occasions in 1980 and 1997, the National Salvation Party and the Welfare Party, representing the Islamist movement, orga…
Mosque Construction as Nation-Building
https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2024.2408820
The Şalom newspaper in Turkey since its 1984 language transformation from Ladino to Turkish and the Turkish Jewish community
The linguistic Turkification of the dwindling Turkish Jewish community during the period of the Republic extended to its media outlets. The Şalom newspaper, published in Turkey since 1947, changed its language from Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) to Turkish in 1984. This article takes that change as the starting point for an examination of the place of the publication within the political framework of a nationalizing secular state as well as its recent Is…
Racism in Turkey
2002). Racism in Turkey: The Case of Huseyin Nihal Atsiz. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 119-130
Nagorno-Karabakh in Regional and World Politics
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict constitutes a perfect case study for empirical and theoretical studies in international relations dealing with the issue of nationalism and ethnic conflict as well as with realism and constructivism. The fact that the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is recognized by the international community as part of Azerbaijan did not change the reality that the region was captured by local Armenian forces with the help of Armenia…
Nagorno-Karabakh—A Forgotten Conflict
In the general area of Southern Caucasus, the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is among the frozen disputes in the region, the others being South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which are nominally independent states, however de facto occupied by Russia. Presently there is a cold peace in all these regions with the potential to turn into armed conflict. The fact that the three historically significant countries in the region, namely Russia, Iran and Turkey a…
The Kurdish Identity of Turkish Nationalist Thinkers
This article purports to study the national identity of two influential ideologues of Turkish nationalism, Ziya Gökalp and Ahmet Arvasi, their approach to Kurds and their rejection of such affiliations regardless of their background in a predominantly Kurdish milieu. Their worldviews were strikingly different regarding social matters but they both shared a common view regarding the hegemonic position of Turkish identity even in a Kurdish-majority…
Turkish‐Israeli Relations
https://doi.org/10.1111/mepo.12007
Islam and the Politics of Secularism
The abolition of the caliphate was one of the most radical changes undertaken in the Islamic world in the early twentieth century. When the last caliph, Abdülmecid, was deposed by republican Turkey in 1924, however, this caused only wrangling at the caliphate conferences in Cairo and Jerusalem and reactions among a few other Muslim communities. The lack of widespread outcry proves that the caliphate as a political and religious institution had ce…
Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2016.1244900
Turkey’s Islamist movement and the Palestinian cause
The city of Jerusalem and the Palestine cause have been internalized by Islamist movements throughout the world as a pan-Islamic issue. Turkey’s Islamist movement, or the National Outlook Movement as it is known, has similarly appropriated Jerusalem as a cause to be defended against what it sees as Israeli encroachments. On two occasions in 1980 and 1997, the National Salvation Party and the Welfare Party, representing the Islamist movement, orga…
The burden of silence
The advent of Sabbatai Sevi (1626–1676) on the world stage in the seventeenth century caused messianic fervour not only in the Ottoman Empire but also in Eastern and Western Europe. The arrival of
Antisemitism and anti-Zionism in Turkey
https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2017.1398457
Glorification of the Past as a Political Tool
Turkey’s radical transformation of state and society under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s republican rule (1923–1938) has been subject to a gradual revision under the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government since 2002. The creation of a new state identity has been buttressed with Islamic and Ottoman discourses, which entail a reinterpretation of Ottoman history. This study analyzes the changes in modern Turkey in the last sixteen years within the…
Ömer Seyfettin—The Balkan Wars, World War I, and His Criticism of Ottomanism and Minority Nationalisms
Ömer Seyfettin (1884–1920) was one of the significant ideologues of Turkish nationalism disseminating his ideas through his activism and his literature by invoking Turkish history. In the journal Young Pens, published in Ottoman Salonica between 1910–1912, Seyfetttin together with Ziya Gökalp laid the foundations of Turkish nationalist thought as well as national policies toward the Turkish language. While Gökalp developed a more systematic ideol…
Conservative Narrative
Turkish politicians, intellectuals and ordinary citizens usually take an ambivalent view of the Ottoman state. The founding fathers of Turkey, mostly soldiers and bureaucrats in the Ottoman state structure had, for the most part, negative perceptions owing to the loss of territory and defeats during the latter days of the Ottoman Empire. Consequently, republican Turkey endeavored to create a modern Turkish nation that was very much part of Wester…
The downfall of Turkish–Israeli relations
The entire edifice of the strategic Turkish-Israeli alliance of the 1990s collapsed during the last ten years, with relations between the former partners characterised by antagonism and total lack of trust that make a genuine reconciliation rather inconceivable despite the existence of weighty common military and economic interests. This article examines the origins of the bilateral relations, the main causes of its decline, and the prospects for…
Banu Turnaoğlu. The Formation of Turkish Republicanism
https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz727
On ‘Nostalgia for the Empire
https://doi.org/10.1163/22131418-00901010
The Fascination of the Turkish Left with Palestine
This study analyzes the ideology and worldview of Turkish and some Kurdish militants of the Turkish socialist movement from the late 1960s until the early 1980s based on the memoirs of the protagonists. In these writings, we can observe the exuberance as well as the disappointments of these young militants and their approach to world affairs in general and Turkish and Middle Eastern politics in particular. In their worldview, America and its alli…
The Impact of Islamist Ideology on Turkish Foreign Policy and Its Casualty
Ideational change in the self-characterization of a state is bound to have repercussions on its domestic and foreign policy behavior. Consequently, the gradual but radical change that has been ongoing in Turkey in the past two decades has had a wide-ranging impact on the way Turkish foreign policy has been conducted. Whereas survival and protection of territorial integrity as well as a Western orientation were traditionally the main concerns of T…
The Şalom newspaper in Turkey since its 1984 language transformation from Ladino to Turkish and the Turkish Jewish community
The linguistic Turkification of the dwindling Turkish Jewish community during the period of the Republic extended to its media outlets. The Şalom newspaper, published in Turkey since 1947, changed its language from Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) to Turkish in 1984. This article takes that change as the starting point for an examination of the place of the publication within the political framework of a nationalizing secular state as well as its recent Is…
Secular Spaces in Israel and Turkey
This article offers a comparative analysis of Tel Aviv and Izmir based on their urban identities grounded on a secular modernist ideological outlook and a Mediterranean way of life based on egalitarian and democratic norms. These criteria will be operationalized by analyzing the ideological preferences as well possibilities for alternative lifestyles for the residents of both cities. Due to the policies of right-wing governments in both countries…
Mosque Construction as Nation-Building
https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2024.2408820
The Nagorno‐Karabakh Conflict
https://doi.org/10.1111/mepo.12742
Political science (21 works) · Politics (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (13 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (12 works) · Turkish (12 works)