Republic of Conspiracies
Cross-Border Plots and the Making of Modern Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10073394 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ramazan Hakkı Öztan (0000-0002-6777-4938, University of Neuchâtel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-76 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022009419884627 |
| OpenAlex | W3014385777 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In August 1935, British authorities tipped off Ankara about a team of assassins who were allegedly headed for Turkey to assassinate its president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Within a month, the Turkish authorities arrested a number of suspects in the Turkish-Syrian borderland, and began to pressure London to extradite the Circassian masterminds of the plot who were then living in the British mandate territories of Palestine and Transjordan. This article examines how the British tip-off quickly evolved into an episode fully publicized by the Kemalist regime, exploring the ways in which the alleged conspiracy helped consolidate Ankara’s ideological positions at home and pursue its long sought-after policies abroad. This curious episode illustrates the political and socio-economic relevance of imperial networks that continued to crisscross the post-Ottoman Middle East. On a more analytical level, the conspiracy helps us understand the complex interaction between intelligence and rumors, and in so doing, shows both empirical limits and opportunities in approaching them as a field of historical inquiry
Ancient history · Ideology · Mandate · Mandatory Palestine · Middle East · Palestine · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turkish · Turkish republic · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |