Modern Turkey

Turkistan Tumult. By Aitchen K. Wu. With illustrations and 2 maps. 8½” × 5½”. Pp. xiii+279. Methuen and Co. 12s. 6d.

Soviets in the Arctic. An historical, economic and political study of the Soviet advance into the Arctic. By T. A. Taracouzio. 9½” × 6¼”. Pp. xvi+563. 7 maps. Macmillan. 1939. 32s. 6d.

Revealing India's Past. A Co‐operative Record of Archaeological Conservation and Exploration in India and Beyond. By Twenty‐two Authorities—British, Indian, and Continental. With a foreword by A. Foucher. Edited by Sir John Cumming, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., M.A. 8½” × 6¾”. Pp. xx+374. Thirty‐three plates and map. The India Society. 1939. 25s.

Islam. By Henri Masse. Translated from the French by Halide Edib. Pp. 270. Putnam. $2.50.

Petra, the Rock City of Edom. By Dr. A. M. Murray. Pp. x+210. Thirty‐two plates; two sketch maps. Blackic. 1939.     

Impressions of modern Turkey

Politics and Change in Developing Countries: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Development. Edited by Colin Leys. Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. ix + 289. Bibliog. Index £2.50.

Agriculture and Economic Growth: Japan's Experience. Edited by Kazushi Ohkawa, Bruce F. Johnston, and Hiromitsu Kaneda. Princeton University Press and Tokyo University Press, 1970. Pp. xxii + 433. £6.

The Sino‐American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction: Twenty Years of Cooperation for Agricultural Development. By T. H. Shen. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1970. Pp. xv + 278. Illus. Appendices. Index. £6.45.     

China Comes Home: The Re-integration of China into the World Economy

This paper examines changes in the Iranian educational system implemented by the Islamic theocracy of Ayatollah Khomeini and his religious followers in the decade after the Revolution overthrowing the Shah. The study demonstrates weaknesses in the theoretical literature on development and education because of its inability to anticipate people in a developing nation empowering a government controlled by religious leaders. Religious values dominate this society and they have significantly altered Iranian education in terms of who teaches; how political/religious ideology, gender roles, and other subjects are taught; who attends schools; and consequentially, these affect Iran's literacy rates.     

Some impressions of modern Turkey

General

The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company 1660–1760. By K. N. Chaudhuri. Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii+629. Tables. Figs. Maps. Appendices. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £37.50.

Dictionary of Asian Philosophies. By St Elmo Nauman (Jr). New York, Philosophical Library, Inc., 1978. Pp. 372. Chron. Tables. Pref. $20.00.

Middle East

Middle East Contemporary Surrey Vol. I: 1976–77. Edited by Colin Legum and Haim Shaked. New York and London, Holmes and Meier Publishers Inc., 1978. (For The Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University) 1978. Pp. 684. Maps. Tables. Notes. Graphs. Index. £32.50.

Pasargadae. A Report on the Excavations conducted by the British Institute of Persian Studies from 1961 to 1963. By David Stronach. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. xii+326. Figs. Fold‐outs. Plates. Maps. Preface. Appendices. Index. £25.00.

The Islamic Pious Foundations in Jerusalem: Origins, History and Usurpation by Israel. By A. L. Tibawi. London, The Islamic Cultural Centre, 1978. Pp. 72. Maps. Illus. Notes. Appendices. £3.00.

Western Civilisation through Muslim Eyes. By Sayid Mujtaba Rukni Musawi Lari of Iran. Trans, by F. J. Goulding. Tehran, Sadr Publishing House, 1977. Optimus Books, Worthing, Sussex. Pp. xii+146. Foreword. Note. Gloss. £1.00.

Gertrude Bell. By H. V. F. Winstone. London, Jonathan Cape, 1978. Pp. 332. Illus. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

South Asia

Politics Mainly Indian. By W. H. Morris‐Jones. Orient Longman, Bombay, 1978. Pp. 392. Intro. Index. Rs. 60.

The Making of the Indian Princes. By Edward Thompson. London and Dublin, Curzon Press, 1978. First published Oxford University Press, 1943. Pp. 304. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £4.50.

Khyber. By Charles Miller. Macmillan, New York, 1977. Macdonald and Janes, London, 1977. Pp. xix+393. Illus. Maps. Bibliog. Index. £7.50.

Family Web. A Story of India. By Sarah Hobson. London, John Murray, 1978. Pp. 284. Illus. Gloss. £5.95.

The Ganges in Myth and History. By Steven G. Darian. University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1978. Pp. 219. Illus. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. $9.95.

USSR

Soviet Political Elites. By Ronald J. Hill. London, Martin Robertson, 1977. Pp. 226. Map. Figs. Tables. Graphs. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £8.25.

The Circumpolar North: A Political and Economic Geography of the Arctic and Sub‐Arctic. By Terence Armstrong, George Rogers and Graham Rowley. Methuen and Co., Ltd., London, 1978. Pp. 303. Maps. Tables. Gloss. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £5.95 (paper).

Central Asia

The Gilgit Game. The Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1865–95. By John Keay. John Murray, London, 1979. Pp. 277. Maps. Notes. Bibliog. Index. Illus. Gloss. £7.95.

South‐East Asia

The Army and Politics in Indonesia. By Harold Crouch. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1978. Pp. 356. Appendix. Gloss. Bibliog. Index. £13.00.

The Indonesian Tragedy. By Brian May. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London, Henley &; Boston, 1978. Pp. xvii+413. Illus. Maps. Notes. Gloss. Index. £8.95.

The Politics of Administration. The Malaysian Experience. By Mavis Puthucheary. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford, New York and Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. xii+170. Notes. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £15.25.

Many Reasons Why. The American Involvement in Vietnam. By Michael Charlton and Anthony Moncrief. Scolar Press, London, 1978. Pp. 250. Maps. Notes. Indices. £10.00 (cloth), £4.50 (paper).

A Concise Legal History of South‐East Asia. By M. B. Hooker. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978. Pp. 289. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £12.50.

Far East

Revolution and History ‐ Origins of Marxist Historiography in China, 1919–37. By Arif Dirlik. Berkeley, San Francisco and London, University of California Press, 1979. Pp. ix+299. Bibliog. Index. £12.25.

Chang Tso‐lin in Northeast China, 1911–1928: China, Japan and the Manchurian Idea. By Gavan McCormack. Folkestone, Dawson, 1977. Pp. 334. Illus. Maps. Index. £12.50.

Militarism in Modern China: The Career of Wu P'ei‐fu 1916–39. By Odoric Y. K. Wou. (Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.) Folkestone, Dawson; Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1978. Pp. 346. Index. £12.50.

Sociology and Socialism in Contemporary China. By Siu‐lun Wong. London, Boston and Henley, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979. Pp. xvi+147. Tables. Notes. Bibliog. Index. £5.75.

The China Station. War and Diplomacy 1830–1860. By Gerald S. Graham. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978. Pp. 444. Maps. Notes. Appendices. Bibliog. Index. £15.00.

Ancient China. The Making of the Past. By Patrick FitzGerald. Oxford, Phaidon Press Ltd., 1978. Pp. 151. Illus. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £4.95.

Rural Development: Learning from China. By Sartaj Aziz. London, The Macmillan Press, 1978. Pp. 201. Ulus. Intro. Appendices. Notes. References. Bibliog. Index. £8.95 (hardback) £5.50 (paperback).

Pacing the Void: T'ang Approaches to the Stars. By Edward H. Schafer. Berkeley, Los Angeles. London, California University Press, 1978. Pp. xi+352. Illus. Appendices. Notes. Bibliog. Gloss. Index. £18.75.

Confucianism and Christianity; a comparative study. By Julia Cheng. Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, Kodansha International in cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Religions of Sophia University, Tokyo 1977. (Distributed by Phaidon Press, Oxford, in the United Kingdom). Pp. 234. Notes. Tables. Bibliog. Index. £8.25.

Economic Development of South Korea. The Political Economy of Success. By L. L. Wade and B. S. Kim. Praeger Publishers, New York and London, 1978. Pp. 270. Figs. Index. Notes. £12.50.     

The village institutes of Turkey

Persia and the Defence of India, 1884–1892. By R. L. Greaves. The University of London. The Athlone Press. 1959. Pp. 301; 5 maps; index. 42s.

The Springing Tiger. A Study of a Revolutionary. By Hugh Toye. Cassell. Pp. 184. Appendices; plates; maps and indices. Foreward by Philip Mason. 25s.

Orde Wingate. By Christopher Sykes. Collins. Pp. 546; maps; plates and index. 35s‐

Ahmad Shah Durrani. By Sardar Ganda Singh. Asia Publishing House. Pp. 457; maps; illustrations; appendixes and index.

Political Leadership among the Swat Pathans. By Fredrik Barth. The Athlone Press. Pp. 143 and index. 25s.

A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. By K. A. Nilakanta Sastri, M.A. Second Edition. O.U.P. 1958.

Pilot Project, India: The Story of Rural Development at Etawah, Uttar Pradesh. By Albert Mayer and Associates in collaboration with McKim Marriott and Richard L. Park. With a Foreword by Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant, Home Minister, Government of India. University of California Press. 1958.

The Heart of India. By Alexander Campbell. Constable. 18s. 6d.

The Yellow Wind. An excursion in and around Red China with a traveller in the Yellow Wind. By William Stevenson. Cassell, London. Pp. 368. 111.; map. 30s. net.

The Economic Growth of Hong Kong. By Edward Szczepanik. Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1958. Pp. 186. Charts; tables; map. 25s.

Missionaries, Chinese and Diplomats. The American Protestant Missionary Movement in China (1890–1952). By Paul A. Varg. Princeton University Press.

Buddhist Cave Paintings at Tun‐Huang. By Basil Gray and John B. Vincent. Published by Faber and Faber, Ltd., at £6 6s.

Britain and the Arabs. A Study of 50 Years, 1908–1958. By Lieutenant‐General Sir John Bagot Glubb, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. Published by Hodder and Stoughton. 30s.

St. Antony's Papers No. 4. Middle Eastern Affairs, No. 1. Chatto and Windus. 1958. Pp. 141. 16s.

The Reconstruction of Iraq: 1950–57. By Fabian I. Qubain. Foreign Policy Research Institute. Series No. 6. University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Atlantic Books, London. Pp. 276; index. 35s.

Nuri as‐Said: A Study in Arab Leadership. By Lord Birdwood, M.V.O. Cassell, London. Pp. 306. 30s.

The Arab Federalists of the Ottoman Empire. By Hassan Saab. Pp. xii‐f 322. Biblio. Djambatan, Amsterdam. £2 2s.

Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization. Selected Essays of Ziya Gokalp. Translated and edited with an introduction by Niyazi Berkes. London. 1959. Pp. 336. 35s.

Rivers and Man. By Robert Brittain. Published by Longmans. Pp. 288. Index; ill.; map. 21s.

Babylon. By Albert Champdor. Translated from the French and adapted by Elsa Coult. London Elek Books. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Pp. 184 Index; ill. 30s.

Armed Diplomat. By Brigadier J. V. Davidson‐Houston. Published at 21s. by Robert Hale, Ltd.

Smelling the Breezes. A journey through the High Lebanon. By Ralph and Molly Izzard. Hodder and Stoughton. 8J"x5i”. 1959. Pp.253. Map; 24 illustrations. 18s. net.

Elephant Kingdom. By H. N. Marshall. Robert Hale. 1959. 8f"x5t”. Pp.190. 21 illustrations; index. 18s. net.

Beds in the East. By Anthony Burgess. Heinemann. 1959. 8” x 5I”. Pp. 237. 15s. net.

The Kurds and their Country. A History of the Kurdish People from the Earliest Times to the Present. By Major Sheikh A. Waheed. Lahore: University Book Agency, 2nd edition. 1958. Pp. 190. Sketch map. 6 Rupees.

Khirbat al Mafjar. An Arabian Mansion in the Jordan Valley. By R. W. Hamilton. With a Contribution by Dr. Oleg Grabar. Palestine Archaeological Museum. Clarendon Press. Oxford University Press. Pp. 350. Illus.—9 in colour. 8 guineas.

No Friends for Travellers. By A. J. Wightman. Robert Hale, Ltd., London. 16s. net.

India and Modern Art. By W. G. Archer. George Allen and Unwin, London. Pp. 143; 61 plates, index. 35s. net.

Classical Sinhalese Sculpture, c. 300 b.c. to a.d. i.ooo. By D. T. Devendra. Alec Tiranti, Ltd., London. 1958. Pp. 48, 128 plates, index. 30s. net.

Nehru: A Political Biography. By Michael Brecher. Oxford University Press. 42s.

Indo‐Pakistan Relations 1947–1955. By Dr. Jyoti Bhusan Das Gupta. Djambatan, Amsterdam. 35s.

The Diplomacy of India: Indian Foreign Policy in the United Nations. By Ross N. Berkes and Mohinder S. Bedi. Oxford University Press. 30s.

The Message of Milarepa. By Humphrey Clarke. Wisdom of the East Series. John Murray. Pp. 104. 8s. 6d. net.

Hinduism. By Swami Nikhilananda. Allen and Unwin. Pp. 189. 16s. net.

Tao TS Ching. A translation by Ch'u Ta‐Kao. George Allen and Unwin. 1959. Pp. 95. 10s. 6d.

Lu Hsiin and the New Culture Movement in China. By Dr. Hang Sung K'ang. Djambatan, Amsterdam. 1957. Pp. 158.

Stalin's Failure in China, 1924–1927. By Conrad Brandt. Harvard University Press and O.U.P. 1958. Pp. 224. Index and bibliography. 25s.

The Wisdom of Lao Tse. Pp. 237. 21s.

The Wisdom of Confucius. Translated and edited by Lin Yutang. Michael Joseph. 1958. Pp. 302. 21s.

Accounts of Western Nations in the History of the Northern Chou Dynasty. Translated and annotated by Roy Andrew Miller. University of California Press. 1959. Pp. 84.

Documents on International Affairs, 1956. Selected, edited and introduced by Noble Frankland. Oxford University Press; issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Pp. 768. 84s.

Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines or Seven Boo\s of Wisdom of the Great Path according to the late Lama Kazi Dawa‐Samdup's English rendering. Arranged and edited with Introductions and Annotations to serve as a commentary, by W. Y. Evans‐Wentz. With forward by Dr. R. R. Marett and Yogic Commentary by Translator‐Professor Chen‐chi Chang. Oxford University Press, 2nd edition. 1958. Pp. xlii + 389. 9 illustrations. Price 42s. net.

The Doctrine of the Buddha. By George Grimm. Geo. Allen and Unwin. Pp. 536. 42s.

Call to Istanbul. By Constance E. Padwick. Longmans. 1958. Pp. 209. Five illustrations. 16s. 6d.

The Siege of Peking. By Peter Fleming. Rupert Hart Davis. Pp. 273; index; ill.; 25s.

Archaeological Discoveries in South Arabia. By Richard leBaron Bowen Jnr., Frank P. Albright and others. American Foundation for the Study of Man. Baltimore, the John Hopkins Press. 1958. Pp. 315. $10.00.

Archaeology and the Old Testament. By James B. Pritchard. London: Oxford University Press. Princeton University Press, N.J. Pp. xvi + 263. 77 illustrations. 30s.

All Things Made New. By John Ferraby. George Allen and Unwin. 30s.     

Women prisoners in Turkey

Historically, the closure of a party is a common phenomenon in Turkish politics. While the recent case against the governing Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) was reminiscent of this trend, the decision of the Constitutional Court demonstrated that there are changes in the dynamics of the Turkish political structure. Although the literature cites the so-called ‘28 February Process’, the impact of EU accession, and the learning effects of democratization as explanations for the distinction of the AKP from its predecessors, this article argues that the AKP is different due to its extended business network and newly defined conservative base. The decision of the court in the recent closure case against the AKP reflects this structural political change within the foundation of Islamic parties in Turkey. While the court acknowledged the political legitimacy of the party by taking a decision against its closure, it has revealed the general discontent regarding AKP's non-adjusted conservative/pro-Islamic policies by cutting down its financial means.     

Proliferation of neopatrimonial domination in Turkey

ABSTRACT

Literature on Turkey’s post-2011 authoritarian turn – especially after the eruption of the 2013 nationwide Gezi Protests – adopts modern concepts such as ‘dictatorship’, ‘authoritarianism’, ‘totalitarianism’, ‘one-party government’, ‘party-state fusion’, and even ‘fascism’ mainly in order to pin down the nature of the Justice and Development Party (AKP, Turkish acronym) or depict the current character of Turkey’s regime. Through engaging the pre-modern concept of neopatrimonialism, which is derived from Max Weber’s concept of patrimonialism, this paper argues that Turkey’s encounter with authoritarianism is deeply associated with the proliferation of neopatrimonial domination, into which the legacy of patronage politics, fracture of security power, and the metastasis of crony capitalism have been conflated. This article argues that neopatrimonial features have always, to a degree, marked state-society relations in Turkey. Furthermore, this article suggests neopatrimonial characteristics started to dominate Turkey’s modern legal structure under the AKP, which led to a state crisis culminating in the 2016 attempted coup. However, despite the fact that neopatrimonialism cannot be argued as a pathological deviation from modern-legal domination, this paper concludes that tension exists between the crony capitalism-based economic model of neopatrimonalism and Turkey’s decades-long market-based capitalism.