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1. Introduction: The AKP's Intellectual Order and Political Technology in Comparative Perspectives -- 2. Quasi-liberal Intellectuals as AKP Apparatchiks: The Second Republic, White Turks, and Other Apologetics -- 3. Islamism, Populism, and Nativism: A Syncretic Brand -- 4. Popular Culture and Conspiracy: Managing the Political Entertainment Scene -- 5.The Rise of Politico Intellectuals: Think Tanks, and the Operators of Political Technology -- 6. Allies: The AKP-MHP Coalition and the Defense Intellectuals -- 7. The State of Turkish Universities during the AKP Rule -- 8. Historians, Ottomanphilia, Perennial Islam, and Contested National Identity in an Era of Cultural War.

Introduction -- The Turkish conspiratorial setting : the national narrative -- The Islamist counter-narrative -- The neo-Kemalist conspiracy theories (2000-2010) -- Deep state : reality, discourse, conspiracy theory -- Islamist conspiracy theories in power (2002-) -- Conclusion.

Conspiracy theories are no longer just a curiosity for afficionados but a politically salient theme in the age of Trump, Brexit and "fake news". One of the countries that has been entrapped in conspiratorial visions is Turkey, and this book is the first comprehensive survey in English of the Turkish conspiratorial mind-set. It provides a nuanced overview of the discourses of Turkish conspiracy theorists and examines how these theorists argue for and legitimize their worldview. The author discusses a broad range of conspiracy theories, including some influenced by Kemalist and Islamist perspectives as well as those of the ruling Justice and Development Party. The most influential authors, books, references and images within the conspiracist milieu are all examined in detail. This book will be an important source for scholars interested in extremism in Turkey and the societal and political impact of conspiracy theories.

Kızdıkça tüm dünyayı boynuzlarının üzerinde sarsan öküz masalına inandığı çocukluk çağlarını çoktan geride bırakmıştı insanlık. İnsanlığın büyüme çağında tarihi, olayları açıklayacak yasalar, neden sonuç ilişkileri vardı artık. Yine de altın çağlara, masumiyetini ve iyiliğini onaylatacağı karşıtlıklar dünyasına dönmek istiyordu. Görünmez düşmanların yok ettiği pembe panjurlu bir ülkede insanlar birbirlerine soruyorlardı: Ya hiçbir şey göründüğü gibi değilse? Doğan Gürpınar, komploların tarihini ve ideolojik kökenlerini incelediği çalışmasında, her şeyin aslında göründüğü gibi olduğu bir dünyanın kapılarını açıyor

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Nationalism and the ancien regime: politics of the Tanzimat -- 2. Primacy of international politics: diplomacy, and appropriation of the 'new knowledge' -- 3. A social portrait of the diplomatic service -- 4. The routine of the diplomatic service and its encounters abroad -- 5. The mentalities and dispositions of the diplomatic service: the great transformation -- 6. The European patterns and the Ottoman Foreign Office -- 7. Passages of the diplomatic service from the Empire to the Republic -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

The encounter with the Ottoman heritage: imperial grandeur, medieval decay, and double discourses -- The encounter with the Islamic past: Turks, Arabs and Persians -- Seljuks of rum in the Turkish national(ist) imagination from the late Ottoman empire to the republican era -- The depiction of European feudalism, the Middle Ages, and the crusades in late Ottoman and Turkish republican imagery -- From "renewal and regeneration" to "decline and collapse": the rise and fall of Tanzimat (1839-1950) -- Infusing the young spirits with the motivation to oppose and counter oppression: revolution and the French revolution

AbstractThe article examines the rise of the 'reactionary modernist' project that developed after the devastating defeat of the Balkan Wars and which was promoted by the Young Turks by means of articles published in Turkish Homeland, the intellectual platform of the Young Turks. The article argues that the outlines of this project to a large extent shaped the contours of Turkish nationalism then, and that they have hence been constitutive of Turkish nationalism ever since.

AbstractThe most prominent issue influencing Turkish‐Armenian relations is the international recognition of the Armenian genocide. However, there is a notable absence of empirical analyses regarding the perceptions of the genocide among the Turkish population. This study aims to fill this scholarly gap by exploring, for the first time, the perspectives of Turkish Jews. It analyses evidence collected from interviews conducted with 14 Turkish Jews, utilising Stanley Cohen's (2001) theoretical framework, which aids in delineating significant factors by a categorisation of types of acceptance and denial. The findings highlight a diversity of responses linked to political attitudes, which can be broadly categorised into Kayades and Avlaremoz mindsets. They also show that Turkish Jews' views on the Holocaust influence how they perceive the Armenian genocide. Additionally, the results indicate that Cohen's approach is useful in explaining non‐denying responses. In conclusion, the study argues that Turkish Jews' perspectives appear to be strongly related to their stance towards the Turkish state and the Holocaust.