Yaşar Tolga Cora
Biographic Data
| ID | 4048809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaşar Tolga Cora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaşar Tolga |
| FAMILY NAME | Cora |
| SIGNATURE | CORA Y T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bogaziçi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4509-8086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Whose Struggle? Armenian Socialist Parties and the Women Workers’ Union in Adapazarı during the Second Constitutional Period
In this article, we examine the labor activism and struggle of Armenian women working in the silk industry around Adapazarı, to the east of Istanbul, in the early 1910s. Although labor activism in the aftermath of the Constitutional Revolution of 1908 has received ample attention of scholars, these women and their struggle remained un(der)examined. We focus on how these female workers organized and in particular on the Adapazarı Silk Workers’ Uni…
Schoolgirls- cum -carpet weavers: The role of the market in public girls’ schools in the late Ottoman Empire
Starting from the last years of the nineteenth century, various public girls’ schools began to include a course on the craft of carpet weaving to their curriculums in the Ottoman Empire. This was a response to the expanding oriental carpet markets and various schools opened workshops and used the labor of their students. Their goal was to integrate schoolgirls, predominantly Muslims, into the labor force and generate revenue from their labor for …
The Failed Housing Cooperative Project of the Oriental Savings Association: Housing and Urban Rent in Istanbul in the 1880s and 1890s
The role of housing cooperatives in the urban history of late Ottoman Istanbul has not been examined. This study examines the foundation and activities of one such cooperative, Arewelyan Dndesagan Miutiwn / Cemiyet-i Tasarrufiyye-i Şarkiyye (Oriental Savings Association), a company established by a group of Armenian entrepreneurs in 1886. The company aimed to purchase a large track of waqf land in extra mural Istanbul, divide it into plots, and t…
Fighting under the same banner: Memories from the Ottoman theater of the Great War
“As Brave as Armenak Efendi”: Ethnic Hierarchies and the Precarious Masculinity of an Ottoman Armenian Officer during the Great War
This article examines the different ways in which masculinity and ethnicity were mu- tually constructed during the Great War and the Armenian Genocide by analyzing the memoirs of Armenak Melikyan, an Armenian cavalry officer in the Ottoman Army. It discusses why Melikyan emphasized in his memoirs certain values, such as dutiful- ness, resourcefulness, and hard work, which were all firmly associated with the he- gemonic masculine model of citizen-…
David Gutman, The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915: Sojourners, Smugglers and Dubious Citizens, Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire (2019)
The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915: Sojourners, Smugglers and Dubious Citizens, is an important contribution devoted to examining the 65,000 Ottoman Armenians migrating to the New World and the subsequent return to their homelands in the last decades before World War I. Gutman approaches this phenomenon on interconnected levels, examining the control of overseas migration by the Ottoman and the US bureaucrats, the unde…
The Market as a Means of Post-Violence Recovery: Armenians and Oriental Carpets in the Late Ottoman Empire (c.1890s–1910s)
Carpet production in the late Ottoman Empire developed during the second half of the nineteenth century in a context of growing trade with Western markets, until, by the turn of the century, carpets had become the empire's leading manufacturing export. This article examines the expansion of oriental carpet production in Armenian communities affected by violence in the mid-1890s and in 1909, and its role in their recovery. It shows that output of …
Institutionalized migrant solidarity in the late Ottoman Empire: Armenian homeland associations (1800s–1920s)
By focusing on the Armenian homeland associations (hayrenakts‘akank‘) established in Istanbul in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this article examines the migrants’ activism and their achievements—facilitated by affective bonds based on shared origins. It outlines the Istanbul-based homeland associations’ development chronologically and discusses their cultural and economic goals in their home regions in the nineteenth and twentieth…
Female Labor, Merchant Capital, and Resilient Manufacturing: Rethinking Ottoman Armenian Communities through Labor and Business
The present article is a study of the social history of textile production in the city of Yerznka (Erzincan) in East-Central Anatolia. It examines textile manufacturing as a site in which gender, class, and ethnicity interacted to form the basis of an Armenian community before the Genocide. It brings a fresh perspective to studies on the persistence of Ottoman textile production in the age of European industrial production by approaching the comm…
The Ottoman East in the Nineteenth Century: Societies, Identities and Politics
The Ottoman East what is also called Western Armenia, Northern Kurdistan or Eastern Anatolia compared to other peripheries of the Ottoman Empire, has received very little attention in Ottoman historiography. So-called taboo subjects such as the fate of Ottoman Armenians and the Kurdish Question during the latter years of the Ottoman Empire have contributed to this dearth of analysis. By integrating the Armenian and Kurdish elements into the study…
The Failed Housing Cooperative Project of the Oriental Savings Association: Housing and Urban Rent in Istanbul in the 1880s and 1890s
The role of housing cooperatives in the urban history of late Ottoman Istanbul has not been examined. This study examines the foundation and activities of one such cooperative, Arewelyan Dndesagan Miutiwn / Cemiyet-i Tasarrufiyye-i Şarkiyye (Oriental Savings Association), a company established by a group of Armenian entrepreneurs in 1886. The company aimed to purchase a large track of waqf land in extra mural Istanbul, divide it into plots, and t…
Female Labor, Merchant Capital, and Resilient Manufacturing: Rethinking Ottoman Armenian Communities through Labor and Business
The present article is a study of the social history of textile production in the city of Yerznka (Erzincan) in East-Central Anatolia. It examines textile manufacturing as a site in which gender, class, and ethnicity interacted to form the basis of an Armenian community before the Genocide. It brings a fresh perspective to studies on the persistence of Ottoman textile production in the age of European industrial production by approaching the comm…
The Ottoman East in the Nineteenth Century: Societies, Identities and Politics
The Ottoman East what is also called Western Armenia, Northern Kurdistan or Eastern Anatolia compared to other peripheries of the Ottoman Empire, has received very little attention in Ottoman historiography. So-called taboo subjects such as the fate of Ottoman Armenians and the Kurdish Question during the latter years of the Ottoman Empire have contributed to this dearth of analysis. By integrating the Armenian and Kurdish elements into the study…
Female Labor, Merchant Capital, and Resilient Manufacturing: Rethinking Ottoman Armenian Communities through Labor and Business
The present article is a study of the social history of textile production in the city of Yerznka (Erzincan) in East-Central Anatolia. It examines textile manufacturing as a site in which gender, class, and ethnicity interacted to form the basis of an Armenian community before the Genocide. It brings a fresh perspective to studies on the persistence of Ottoman textile production in the age of European industrial production by approaching the comm…
Institutionalized migrant solidarity in the late Ottoman Empire: Armenian homeland associations (1800s–1920s)
By focusing on the Armenian homeland associations (hayrenakts‘akank‘) established in Istanbul in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this article examines the migrants’ activism and their achievements—facilitated by affective bonds based on shared origins. It outlines the Istanbul-based homeland associations’ development chronologically and discusses their cultural and economic goals in their home regions in the nineteenth and twentieth…
Fighting under the same banner: Memories from the Ottoman theater of the Great War
“As Brave as Armenak Efendi”: Ethnic Hierarchies and the Precarious Masculinity of an Ottoman Armenian Officer during the Great War
This article examines the different ways in which masculinity and ethnicity were mu- tually constructed during the Great War and the Armenian Genocide by analyzing the memoirs of Armenak Melikyan, an Armenian cavalry officer in the Ottoman Army. It discusses why Melikyan emphasized in his memoirs certain values, such as dutiful- ness, resourcefulness, and hard work, which were all firmly associated with the he- gemonic masculine model of citizen-…
David Gutman, The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915: Sojourners, Smugglers and Dubious Citizens, Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire (2019)
The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915: Sojourners, Smugglers and Dubious Citizens, is an important contribution devoted to examining the 65,000 Ottoman Armenians migrating to the New World and the subsequent return to their homelands in the last decades before World War I. Gutman approaches this phenomenon on interconnected levels, examining the control of overseas migration by the Ottoman and the US bureaucrats, the unde…
The Market as a Means of Post-Violence Recovery: Armenians and Oriental Carpets in the Late Ottoman Empire (c.1890s–1910s)
Carpet production in the late Ottoman Empire developed during the second half of the nineteenth century in a context of growing trade with Western markets, until, by the turn of the century, carpets had become the empire's leading manufacturing export. This article examines the expansion of oriental carpet production in Armenian communities affected by violence in the mid-1890s and in 1909, and its role in their recovery. It shows that output of …
Schoolgirls- cum -carpet weavers: The role of the market in public girls’ schools in the late Ottoman Empire
Starting from the last years of the nineteenth century, various public girls’ schools began to include a course on the craft of carpet weaving to their curriculums in the Ottoman Empire. This was a response to the expanding oriental carpet markets and various schools opened workshops and used the labor of their students. Their goal was to integrate schoolgirls, predominantly Muslims, into the labor force and generate revenue from their labor for …
The Failed Housing Cooperative Project of the Oriental Savings Association: Housing and Urban Rent in Istanbul in the 1880s and 1890s
The role of housing cooperatives in the urban history of late Ottoman Istanbul has not been examined. This study examines the foundation and activities of one such cooperative, Arewelyan Dndesagan Miutiwn / Cemiyet-i Tasarrufiyye-i Şarkiyye (Oriental Savings Association), a company established by a group of Armenian entrepreneurs in 1886. The company aimed to purchase a large track of waqf land in extra mural Istanbul, divide it into plots, and t…
Whose Struggle? Armenian Socialist Parties and the Women Workers’ Union in Adapazarı during the Second Constitutional Period
In this article, we examine the labor activism and struggle of Armenian women working in the silk industry around Adapazarı, to the east of Istanbul, in the early 1910s. Although labor activism in the aftermath of the Constitutional Revolution of 1908 has received ample attention of scholars, these women and their struggle remained un(der)examined. We focus on how these female workers organized and in particular on the Adapazarı Silk Workers’ Uni…
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