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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.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1. SECULAR INTERVENTIONS -- CHAPTER ONE. (Un)veiling feminism -- CHAPTER TWO. Secularism and laicism in turkey -- CHAPTER THREE. Women between community and state: some implications of the uniform civil code debates -- CHAPTER FOUR. Other moderns, other jews: revisiting jewish secularism in america -- CHAPTER FIVE. Disappearances: race, religion, and the progress narrative of U.S. feminism -- CHAPTER SIX. Late secularism -- CHAPTER SEVEN. What tangled webs we weave: science, secularism, and religion in contemporary India -- PART 2. SECULAR RELATIONS: MICRONARRATIVES -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Secularizing the pain of footbinding in china: missionary and medical stagings of the universal body -- CHAPTER NINE. Ghostly appearances -- CHAPTER TEN. "The quick, the dead, and the yet unborn": untimely sexualities and secular hauntings -- PART 3. PUBLIC ALTERNATIVES -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Toward secular diaspora: relocating religion and politics -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Feminisms and secularisms -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Continuity or rupture? an argument for secular Britain -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX