Mercantile Militarism in Turkey, 1960-1998

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ID6093607
AutoresTaha Parla (Bogaziçi University, autor correspondente)
Ano1998
Volume19
Páginas29-52
Data de publicação1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Perspectives on Turkey (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0896-6346 • E-ISSN: 1305-3299
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0896634600003010
OpenAlexW2466961574
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas4

It was in 1974 when I first took a look at mercantile militarism in Turkey, emergent in the form of OYAK-Ordu Yardımlaşma Kurumu (Armed Forces Mutual Trust and Pension Fund) (Parla 1974). In the first section of this paper, I shall present the case as it then appeared. In the second section, I will update the data on the phenomenon of OYAK as of 1998. In the third, I shall examine aspects of the second, complementary wave of Turkish mercantile militarism that has manifested itself in the form of TSKGV-Türk Silahlı Kuvvetlerini Güçlendirme Vakfı (Foundation for Strengthening the Turkish Armed Forces). The concluding section will suggest a way in which this subject can be put in the larger context of an all-pervasive militarism in Turkey—political, constitutional, cultural—as well as some of the ways in which critical appreciation of this phenomenon seems crucial for understanding Turkish politics and political economy better

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