Der Tagungsband zur internationalen und interdisziplinären Konferenz vom Mai 2017 analysiert den ... more Der Tagungsband zur internationalen und interdisziplinären Konferenz vom Mai 2017 analysiert den Stand und die Perspektiven der türkisch-europäischen Beziehungen aus dem Blickwinkel beider Akteure. Neben dem Stand des EU-Beitrittsprozesses des Landes sowie der innenpolitischen Entwicklungen in der Türkei seit dem Putschversuch vom Juli 2016 werden mit dem Flüchtlingsabkommen, der Kooperation mit Ankara in EU und NATO sowie dem deutsch-türkischen Verhältnis prägende Aspekte der Beziehungen en détail betrachtet. Darüber hinaus bietet der Band eine Untersuchung der türkischen Politik im Hinblick auf regionale sicherheitspolitische Herausforderungen wie die Kurdenproblematik und den Syrien-Konflikt. Neben deutschen Türkei-Experten und Autoren, die lange in der Türkei gelebt haben, tragen auch türkische Autoren zu einer umfassenden Analyse der EU-Türkei-Beziehungen im aktuellen Kontext bei. Mit Beiträgen von Mustafa Nail Alkan, Hüseyin Bağcı, Serdar Erdurmaz, Kristina Dohrn, Colin Dürkop, Marcus Engler, M. Murat Erdoğan, Gülistan Gürbey, Magdalena Kirchner, Arndt Künnecke, Armin Staigis, Dirk Tröndle.
The term neo-Ottomanism has pervaded debates on Turkish foreign policy since the end
of the 1980... more The term neo-Ottomanism has pervaded debates on Turkish foreign policy since the end
of the 1980s and increasingly over the past 20 years, often without any further definition.
Authors and opinion leaders use the term to describe Turkey’s pro-active foreign policy in
neighbouring regions that had been under the influence of the Ottoman Empire. However,
the term is misleading because it implies the continuation of a policy under different auspices,
which can neither be derived from Ottoman history nor traced back to Ottomanism
as one central political thought in late Ottoman mentality history. Protagonists of Turkish
foreign policy also reject the term. Critics use it as a fighting term and object, among other
things, to Turkey’s foreign policy shift away from the West to the East and its Islamist character.
The term has thus become part of the “culture clash” that continues to be fought
between
the conservative-Islamic and secular camps even in the post-Kemalist era.
The Turkish Economy Congress (February 17-March 4, 1923) held when the Lausanne Peace negotiation... more The Turkish Economy Congress (February 17-March 4, 1923) held when the Lausanne Peace negotiations where the political independence of Turkey would be acknowledged, were suspended, is important in terms of underlining the economic independence. In the decisions taken at the congress, besides the supporting private entrepreneurship becoming prominent, restrictions on customs tariffs in Lausanne Peace Treaty that would be valid until 1929 prevented the Republic of Turkey from applying specific customs tariffs. The Great Depression negatively affected the Republic of Turkey along with the world. State supported private enterprises and various measures were taken to regulate economic environment to overcome this troubled process with the least damage, while on the other hand it was thought to eliminate the social tension with a pluralist political method and the Liberal Republican Party was established. However, the establishment of the party didn't have the expected effect and caused the political environment to become even tenser and it decided to dissolve itself shortly after. In this period, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) made a threemonth trip to Anatolia to explain the reasons for the dissolution of the Liberal Republican Party to the public, to observe the extent to which the revolutions were adopted, and to closely observe the effects of the economic crisis and produce solutions. In this study, which was conducted to evaluate the economic and political reflections of the Great Depression on Republic of Turkey and the search for solutions to overcome those problems, primarily newspapers and archive documents of the period were used. The framework of the study consists of the economic legacy that the Republic of Turkey inherited from Ottoman Empire, the conditions that necessitated the establishment and dissolution of the LRP, and Mustafa Kemal's (Atatürk)'s determinations and solution efforts during his Anatolian trips.
Some months ago, some stir was caused by the address of a preacher in a Berlin mosque in which th... more Some months ago, some stir was caused by the address of a preacher in a Berlin mosque in which the Imam called the Germans a dirty and stinking people and advised his congregation against making any contact with the ,infidels‘. While there can be no doubt that statements like these are not acceptable, we must differentiate between ,official‘ Friday sermons (hutbe, or hutba in Arabic) and addresses given by dubious hedge priests. In this context, it may be helpful to analyse the 54 official Friday sermons published by the Presidium for Religious Affairs in Turkey (DIB) in 2005.
Das Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung (ZfTI) wurde 1985 mit dem Ziel der Intens... more Das Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung (ZfTI) wurde 1985 mit dem Ziel der Intensivierung der deutsch-türkischen Beziehungen gegründet. Seitdem hat es sich zu einem wichtigen wissenschaftlichen Kompetenzzentrum zu relevanten Entwicklungen in der Türkei sowie zu Fragen der Migration und Einwandererintegration entwickelt; und dies nicht nur mit Blick auf die deutsch-türkische Migration. Die Aufgaben des ZfTI umfassen heute die deutsche, türkische und europäische Migrations-und Integrationsforschung, die Anregung und Vernetzung wissenschaftlicher Forschung mit der Türkei und die Förderung des Wissenschaftleraustauschs zwischen der Türkei und Deutschland. Das Institut ist eine Stiftung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen und genießt als NGO Konsultativstatus beim Wirtschafts-und Sozialrat (ECOSOC) der Vereinten Nationen. Das ZfTI ist Institut an der Universität Duisburg-Essen.
There are two questions that arise in conjunction with the relationship between Islam and democra... more There are two questions that arise in conjunction with the relationship between Islam and democracy: How to correlate Islam as a religion and a world view with democracy as a secular political system? And why is it that the same question never crops up with regard to the relationship between Christianity and democracy? It is erroneous to assume that Islam is incompatible with, or even incapable of, democracy, at least in Turkey, where Islam and democracy are interlinked by a tight nexus of relations that may be considered from two aspects, the Islamization of politics and the politicization of Islam. While the first aspect relates to political Islam in Turkey, the second covers all those political, economic, and social areas in which Islam is instrumentalized.
Der Tagungsband zur internationalen und interdisziplinären Konferenz vom Mai 2017 analysiert den ... more Der Tagungsband zur internationalen und interdisziplinären Konferenz vom Mai 2017 analysiert den Stand und die Perspektiven der türkisch-europäischen Beziehungen aus dem Blickwinkel beider Akteure. Neben dem Stand des EU-Beitrittsprozesses des Landes sowie der innenpolitischen Entwicklungen in der Türkei seit dem Putschversuch vom Juli 2016 werden mit dem Flüchtlingsabkommen, der Kooperation mit Ankara in EU und NATO sowie dem deutsch-türkischen Verhältnis prägende Aspekte der Beziehungen en détail betrachtet. Darüber hinaus bietet der Band eine Untersuchung der türkischen Politik im Hinblick auf regionale sicherheitspolitische Herausforderungen wie die Kurdenproblematik und den Syrien-Konflikt. Neben deutschen Türkei-Experten und Autoren, die lange in der Türkei gelebt haben, tragen auch türkische Autoren zu einer umfassenden Analyse der EU-Türkei-Beziehungen im aktuellen Kontext bei. Mit Beiträgen von Mustafa Nail Alkan, Hüseyin Bağcı, Serdar Erdurmaz, Kristina Dohrn, Colin Dürkop, Marcus Engler, M. Murat Erdoğan, Gülistan Gürbey, Magdalena Kirchner, Arndt Künnecke, Armin Staigis, Dirk Tröndle.
The term neo-Ottomanism has pervaded debates on Turkish foreign policy since the end
of the 1980... more The term neo-Ottomanism has pervaded debates on Turkish foreign policy since the end
of the 1980s and increasingly over the past 20 years, often without any further definition.
Authors and opinion leaders use the term to describe Turkey’s pro-active foreign policy in
neighbouring regions that had been under the influence of the Ottoman Empire. However,
the term is misleading because it implies the continuation of a policy under different auspices,
which can neither be derived from Ottoman history nor traced back to Ottomanism
as one central political thought in late Ottoman mentality history. Protagonists of Turkish
foreign policy also reject the term. Critics use it as a fighting term and object, among other
things, to Turkey’s foreign policy shift away from the West to the East and its Islamist character.
The term has thus become part of the “culture clash” that continues to be fought
between
the conservative-Islamic and secular camps even in the post-Kemalist era.
The Turkish Economy Congress (February 17-March 4, 1923) held when the Lausanne Peace negotiation... more The Turkish Economy Congress (February 17-March 4, 1923) held when the Lausanne Peace negotiations where the political independence of Turkey would be acknowledged, were suspended, is important in terms of underlining the economic independence. In the decisions taken at the congress, besides the supporting private entrepreneurship becoming prominent, restrictions on customs tariffs in Lausanne Peace Treaty that would be valid until 1929 prevented the Republic of Turkey from applying specific customs tariffs. The Great Depression negatively affected the Republic of Turkey along with the world. State supported private enterprises and various measures were taken to regulate economic environment to overcome this troubled process with the least damage, while on the other hand it was thought to eliminate the social tension with a pluralist political method and the Liberal Republican Party was established. However, the establishment of the party didn't have the expected effect and caused the political environment to become even tenser and it decided to dissolve itself shortly after. In this period, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) made a threemonth trip to Anatolia to explain the reasons for the dissolution of the Liberal Republican Party to the public, to observe the extent to which the revolutions were adopted, and to closely observe the effects of the economic crisis and produce solutions. In this study, which was conducted to evaluate the economic and political reflections of the Great Depression on Republic of Turkey and the search for solutions to overcome those problems, primarily newspapers and archive documents of the period were used. The framework of the study consists of the economic legacy that the Republic of Turkey inherited from Ottoman Empire, the conditions that necessitated the establishment and dissolution of the LRP, and Mustafa Kemal's (Atatürk)'s determinations and solution efforts during his Anatolian trips.
Some months ago, some stir was caused by the address of a preacher in a Berlin mosque in which th... more Some months ago, some stir was caused by the address of a preacher in a Berlin mosque in which the Imam called the Germans a dirty and stinking people and advised his congregation against making any contact with the ,infidels‘. While there can be no doubt that statements like these are not acceptable, we must differentiate between ,official‘ Friday sermons (hutbe, or hutba in Arabic) and addresses given by dubious hedge priests. In this context, it may be helpful to analyse the 54 official Friday sermons published by the Presidium for Religious Affairs in Turkey (DIB) in 2005.
Das Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung (ZfTI) wurde 1985 mit dem Ziel der Intens... more Das Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung (ZfTI) wurde 1985 mit dem Ziel der Intensivierung der deutsch-türkischen Beziehungen gegründet. Seitdem hat es sich zu einem wichtigen wissenschaftlichen Kompetenzzentrum zu relevanten Entwicklungen in der Türkei sowie zu Fragen der Migration und Einwandererintegration entwickelt; und dies nicht nur mit Blick auf die deutsch-türkische Migration. Die Aufgaben des ZfTI umfassen heute die deutsche, türkische und europäische Migrations-und Integrationsforschung, die Anregung und Vernetzung wissenschaftlicher Forschung mit der Türkei und die Förderung des Wissenschaftleraustauschs zwischen der Türkei und Deutschland. Das Institut ist eine Stiftung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen und genießt als NGO Konsultativstatus beim Wirtschafts-und Sozialrat (ECOSOC) der Vereinten Nationen. Das ZfTI ist Institut an der Universität Duisburg-Essen.
There are two questions that arise in conjunction with the relationship between Islam and democra... more There are two questions that arise in conjunction with the relationship between Islam and democracy: How to correlate Islam as a religion and a world view with democracy as a secular political system? And why is it that the same question never crops up with regard to the relationship between Christianity and democracy? It is erroneous to assume that Islam is incompatible with, or even incapable of, democracy, at least in Turkey, where Islam and democracy are interlinked by a tight nexus of relations that may be considered from two aspects, the Islamization of politics and the politicization of Islam. While the first aspect relates to political Islam in Turkey, the second covers all those political, economic, and social areas in which Islam is instrumentalized.
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of the 1980s and increasingly over the past 20 years, often without any further definition.
Authors and opinion leaders use the term to describe Turkey’s pro-active foreign policy in
neighbouring regions that had been under the influence of the Ottoman Empire. However,
the term is misleading because it implies the continuation of a policy under different auspices,
which can neither be derived from Ottoman history nor traced back to Ottomanism
as one central political thought in late Ottoman mentality history. Protagonists of Turkish
foreign policy also reject the term. Critics use it as a fighting term and object, among other
things, to Turkey’s foreign policy shift away from the West to the East and its Islamist character.
The term has thus become part of the “culture clash” that continues to be fought
between
the conservative-Islamic and secular camps even in the post-Kemalist era.
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of the 1980s and increasingly over the past 20 years, often without any further definition.
Authors and opinion leaders use the term to describe Turkey’s pro-active foreign policy in
neighbouring regions that had been under the influence of the Ottoman Empire. However,
the term is misleading because it implies the continuation of a policy under different auspices,
which can neither be derived from Ottoman history nor traced back to Ottomanism
as one central political thought in late Ottoman mentality history. Protagonists of Turkish
foreign policy also reject the term. Critics use it as a fighting term and object, among other
things, to Turkey’s foreign policy shift away from the West to the East and its Islamist character.
The term has thus become part of the “culture clash” that continues to be fought
between
the conservative-Islamic and secular camps even in the post-Kemalist era.