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Open research questions in Turkey's Politics and Society

113 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 7,004 Turkey's Politics and Society papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Questions such as: How did the figures in the monuments and statues of this period convey new Republican values like modernization, secularism, and nationalism to the public? What aspects of society did Republican elites aim to transform, and how did they represent this transformation through monuments and statues? What role did monuments play in the construction of national identity? remain to be answered.

    Monuments and National Identity During the Single-Party Era in Türkiye (1923–1946) · 2026 · DOI

  • However, following the adoption of the TCC, insufficient studies are available to effectively communicate this progress in Turkish law to stakeholders in other countries.

    MONTREUX OR UNCLOS? LEGAL REFORM ON THE ARREST OF FOREIGN-FLAGGED MERCHANT SHIPS IN THE TURKISH STRAITS UNDER THE 2011 TURKISH COMMERCIAL CODE · 2026 · DOI

  • 100 Niyazi Berkes pointed to the lack of scientific preparation, claiming the issues had not been adequately studied or observed beforehand, leaving discussions superficial and lacking a scholarly foundation.

    The Construction of Moral Education in Early Republican Türkiye: Reflections of the Second Education Council (1943) on the Discourses of Power and Aydıns · 2026 · DOI

  • Approaching the problem from this perspective made it possible to revisit a central question that has remained underexplored in much of the existing literature: whether, across this seven-hundred-year span, Ottoman and Turkish foreign policy exhibited trans-periodic strategic traditions that transcended individual cases, rulers, and historical conjunctures.

    Enduring Principles of Statecraft: Ottoman–Turkish Foreign Policy across Power and Vulnerability · 2026 · DOI

  • Analysing the process of the establishment of this school, this article explores how Turkish scientists connected to the same networks participated in the Foundation’s initiatives to advance their status, and examines the broad political and economic factors that the Foundation’s “non-ideological” interest in education for scientific manpower overlooked, leading to the mixed results of the project.

    Constructing a “Scientific Manpower Crisis”: Science Education and the Ford Foundation in Cold War Turkey · 2024 · DOI

  • With the recent regeneration of communications with Turkey and the EU reaffirming Turkey’s candidate status, an examination of Turkey’s standing in fulfilment of its accession obligations is warranted.

    THE RATIFICATION OF THE ISTANBUL CONVENTION BY THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ITS EFFECT ON CANDIDATE STATES: SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO TURKEY · 2024 · DOI

  • Abstract Turkey's Community Development Program (CDP), implemented in the 1960s and 1970s, has remained a largely underexplored subject in the global history of rural community development schemes.

    The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960–1980 · 2024 · DOI

  • Banu Bargu, whose work also deals with the place of death and sacrifice in leftist politics in Turkey, has previously suggested distinguishing “religious forms of martyrdom” from “secular forms” and has observed that the latter are greatly under-researched (Bargu, 2014, 401, n.

    Sacrifice, commemoration, and resistance · 2024 · DOI

  • We draw on Turkey – a Muslim-majority country governed by the pro-Islamist Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP) for the past two decades – to examine some underexplored implications of the supply-side theory of religion.

    State and faith: the supply-side theory of religion and the case of Turkey · 2023 · DOI

  • Abstract This article explores how Islamic art was produced and used in Turkey within the context of modern warfare during World War I, the War of Independence, and the nascent Republic – a subject still relatively understudied in Turkish history, as well as in international cultural histories of modern warfare and histories of modern art in the Middle East.

    Islamic art and visualities of war from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic · 2023 · DOI

  • By doing so, the study gives an account of Turkey-Iran relations during the course of the revolution and of what the state of religious and political groups was like in Turkey post-revolution limited to the period between 1978 and 1990, this paper outlines a general framework of Islamic groups of the time, political parties, the intelligentsia, circles around magazines and the media they dominated.

    TÜRKİYE’DE İSLAMİ GRUPLARIN İRAN İSLAM DEVRİMİ’NE YAKLAŞIMI VE DEVRİM İHRACI MESELESİ: DERGİLER ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME · 2022 · DOI

  • ‘Embedded neoliberalism’, a concept frequently used to explain increasing state involvement under neoliberalism, sheds light on the governing AKP’s power, but is insufficient in explaining its core dynamics.

    Politicized Megaprojects and Public Sector Interventions: Mass Consent Under Neoliberal Statism · 2022 · DOI

  • Second, domestic struggles and political decisions related to the Turkish SSAs are not limited to the main variables of the SSA theory, such as labor-capital conflict, profit rate, and economic crises.

    Social Structures of Accumulation in a Semiperiphery Country · 2022 · DOI

  • Although academic community is aware of the ex­istence of Muslim jizya payers in several regions of the Ottoman Empire, this paper argues that historiographic knowledge on the mentioned phenomenon is rather rudimentary as present studies on this topic are based on a very limited data while official financial records that contain information on Muslim jizya payers, such as the jizya registers from the Ottoman Bosnia, have still not beenthoroughly analysed.

    Muslim Jizya Payers in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire · 2021 · DOI

  • 4Both the British intelligence report and the speech reproduced in Sirāj al-Akhbār shed light on a rarely explored aspect of the lives of Edib and other elite women, like Mahmud Tarzi’s own daughter, Suraya Tarzi (1899–1968), who became the first queen of Afghanistan and played a role in the politics of the interwar Middle East and South Asia.

    From Afghan Pan-Islamism to Turkish Feminism · 2021 · DOI

  • What are the economic determinants of pro-government mobilizations? While recent studies have contributed to our understanding of the relationship between a defined set of economic variables and political unrest – including revolts, riots, and uprisings against the status quo – there has been relatively little attempt to understand how these models might apply to demonstrations in support of the existing regime, which remain an understudied phenomenon within the literature.

    Social mobility and pro-government mobilization: the case of July 15th pro-government mobilization in Turkey · 2021 · DOI

  • Together with critically evaluating the main developments on this topic in the Ottoman studies, it argues that the ideas presented by the acclaimed contributors in this field are insufficient to explain all of the structural changes that occurred in the Ottoman state finance, and in the economies of the frontier regions.

    REKONCEPTUALIZACIJA TRANSFORMACIJSKIH PROCESA NA PERIFERIJI OSMANSKOG CARSTVA: FILURIJA I PRIJELAZ NA REŽIM NATURALNE DESETINE U AGRARNOJ EKONOMIJI OSMANSKE BOSNE, C. 1699-1852. · 2020 · DOI

  • This Declaration – which could become a basis for successful Turkish-Bulgarian reconciliation – largely remains unknown in both countries, while the propagandistic terminology employed for referring to the 1989 Ethnic Cleansing deepens the oblivion and obfuscates the nature of this tragic event.

    Between Politics and Objectivity: The <i>Non</i>-Remembrance of the 1989 Ethnic Cleansing of Turks in Communist Bulgaria · 2020 · DOI

  • The central question that remains about the Kurdistan referendum is what really motivated Kurdish politicians, in particular those of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to hold the poll? This article argues that the KDP has a number of different public and private motivations in holding the independence referendum, which need to be explored.

    IRAQI KURDISTAN’S 2017 INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM: THE KDP’S PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MOTIVES · 2020 · DOI

  • I further argue that, while the federal model has appeared to manage securitized Kurdish identity in Iraq since 2003, this solution may not be applicable to Turkey, Iran, and Syria.

    The Securitization and De-Securitization of Kurdish Societal Security in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, And Syria · 2020 · DOI

  • Although research has examined the Turkish agenda for Africa since 2002, few studies have considered Turkey's uniqueness compared to other extra-regional actors.

    The Ankara consensus: the significance of Turkey's engagement in sub-Saharan Africa · 2018 · DOI

  • Despite the various works on the issue since the opening of the borders in 2003, the issue of identity in the Turkish Cypriot community still remains under-researched.

    Turkish Cypriot identity after 1974: Turkish Cypriots, Turks of Cyprus or Cypriots? · 2017 · DOI

  • Their participation in the Ottoman public sphere was not limited to the activities aimed at the restoration of an independent Poland; rather, Polish émigrés also played an active role in the enterprise of modernization of the Ottoman state since the era of the Tanzimat reforms (1839–1876).

    Pour la réforme de la justice ottomane: Count Leon Walerian Ostroróg (1867–1932) and his activities in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire · 2017 · DOI

  • We argue that academic narrations, which tend to reduce Turkey’s role to a simple externalization of EU border politics, are insufficient to explain the current Turkish migration regime.

    Tracing the Effects of the EU-Turkey Deal · 2017 · DOI

  • If North Africa is understudied by academics of the Middle East, the Maghreb is more so and Maghrebian women even more (Ennaji, Sadiqi, and Vintges 2016; Moghadam 1993; Sadiqi 2016).

    Gendering Political Agency in the Maghreb · 2016 · DOI

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