Erol Ülker

Biographic Data

ID4048834
NAMEErol Ülker
GIVEN NAMESErol
FAMILY NAMEÜlker
SIGNATUREÜLKER E
AFFILIATIONSIşık University
ORCID0000-0003-4074-7806
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS22
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946–1962. Work, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday, written by Barış Alp Özden

    Erol ÜlkerARTICLETurkish Historical Review2025

  • The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire

    Erol ÜlkerARTICLEBustan The Middle East Book Review2023

    Ryan Gingeras’s The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire is one of the most comprehensive recently published studies on the dissolution of the Ottoman state. In this study, Gingeras focuses on that critical period from the signing of the Mudros Armistice to the departure of the last Ottoman sultan from Istanbul and the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in October 1923, which is frequently referred to in the historiography as the Armistice period. …

  • Assimilation of the Muslim communities in the first decade of the Turkish Republic (1923-1934)

    Open AccessErol ÜlkerARTICLEEuropean journal of Turkish studies2023Cited by: 7References: 4

    The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how immigration-settlement policies were employed by post-Lausanne Turkey to create a homogenous nation-state. Focusing on the incorporation of immigrants in the period of 1923-1934, the paper argues that the state policies of migration and settlement pursued two primary objectives that were closely connected with the nationalizing measures. They were carried out for the assimilation of non-Turkish-speaking…

  • When do workers support executive aggrandizement? Lessons from the recent Turkish experience

    Open AccessFulya Apaydin, Ferit Serkan Öngel et al.ARTICLEIndustrial Relations Journal2022

    Following the 2017 constitutional referendum under the Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party‐AKP) rule in Turkey, the reforms granted judicial and legislative powers to the head of the executive under a presidential system. Initial observations reveal that some blue‐collar workers who are members of a historically progressive union have also supported these reforms. This is surprising because the union leadership has publicly …

  • A Social Democratic Party in Istanbul during the Post-armistice Years

    Erol ÜlkerARTICLEYıllık: Annual of Istanbul studies2022

    The future founder of the Social Democratic Party (Sosyal Demokrat Fırkası, SDF), Doctor Hasan Rıza’s (bin Esat) relationship with the socialist movement began during the Second Constitutional Period.1 A permanent member of the Medical Society, Dr. Hasan Rıza resigned from the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) with a letter he wrote in January 1911.2 He subsequently adopted socialism, and in 1913–1914 contacted the Socialist International to …

  • Anti-Imperialism and Kemalism in Turkey’s Long Sixties

    Erol ÜlkerARTICLETurkish Historical Review2021

    This article aims to reassess the evolution of Mahir Çayan’s theory of uninterrupted revolution in the context of the radical ideological currents of the long sixties in Turkey. It concentrates on Çayan’s relations with the National Democratic Revolution ( Milli Demokratik Devrim , mdd ) movement that enjoyed a considerable degree of political and ideological authority over the youth movements starting in the second half of the 1960s. The article…

  • The Political Incorporation of Labor in Turkey

    Open AccessFulya Apaydin, Erol ÜlkerARTICLENationalities Papers2021References: 30

    This study makes an important contribution to the literature on labor incorporation in developing areas based on existing historiography and archival material from Turkey. Specifically, we argue that the political incorporation of labor during the early period of state building is strongly influenced by elite preferences over who constitutes the nation. In doing so, we address a neglected dimension by putting the emphasis on ethnoreligious politi…

  • Military, Finance, and Economy in the Late Ottoman Empire

    Erol ÜlkerARTICLEJournal of Balkan and Near…2020

    This article deals with the Ottoman military’s financial and economic activities during the First World War. It concentrates on how the Directorate-General of Hejaz and Military Railways and Ports (DHMRP) developed relations with the Ottoman National Credit Bank and the Ministry of Finance. Examining a set of commercial activities in which the DHMRP was engaged in cooperation with the National Credit Bank and the Ministry of Finance, it is argued…

  • Assimilation, Security and Geographical Nationalization in Interwar Turkey

    Open AccessErol ÜlkerARTICLEEuropean journal of Turkish studies2008Cited by: 1References: 6

    This paper discusses the relationship between the geographical dimension of the Turkish government’s population homogenizing measures and security policies in the Settlement Law of 1934. Investigating the division of the country into three zones of settlement by the law in question, the paper demonstrates that security concerns became one of the key factors in the governmental policy, which aimed at changing the demographic structure of certain s…

  • Contextualising ‘Turkification

    Open AccessErol ÜlkerARTICLENations and Nationalism2005Cited by: 14References: 8

    This article offers an analytical framework for understanding the peculiarities of the Ottoman Empire's nationality policies in the second constitutional period (1908–18). It will examine the extent to which the nationality policies of the Young Turks can be perceived as a nation‐building project, and question whether it is reasonable to apply the term ‘Turkification’ to these policies. The primary goal of the paper in this context is to identify…