Description: Political Violence in Turkey, 1 : The State at Stake, Hardcover by Gourisse, Benjamin, ISBN 0755646479, ISBN-13 9780755646470, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Between the coups of 12 March 1971 and 12 September 1980, Turkey went through a period of intense political violence. Radical left- and right-wing groups clashed in what was virtually a civil war. The period remains an open wound in the country's history. It led to the harshest military regime Turkey has ever seen, on which it only truly turned the page in the 2000s. This book sets out close, documented analysis of the tactics used by the various protagonists in the conflict, showing how they took over public institutions, first among which was the police. This led to the increasing politicisation of the state. Th demonstrates that, contrary to prevailing conceptions, the myth a “strong” Turkish state viewed as authoritative and autonomous from society needs substantive reappraisal. Rather, the state constituted the prime arena for the political mobilisation which flooded through the state and which, lacking sufficient resources, it was unable to contain. Th analyses the structure, mobilisation, and strategies of antagonistic radical political groups caught up in this dynamic of violence (the far-left organisations and the Nationalist Movement, comprising the Nationalist Movement Party and its satellite organisations). During the 1970s public institutions were the privileged locus for rivalry between the antagonistic radical movements. They were also the site for conflictual interactions between officials who politicised their professional practices, lending their support to the party whose electoral victory would ensure they retained their position. From 1975 to 1980, the state was never “out of play”. Quite the contrary, in fact, for its institutions, together with the practices, beliefs, and representations of their members and users, were central to the processes constituting the crisis.
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Book Title: Political Violence in Turkey, 1975-1980 : The State at Stake
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Name: Political Violence in Turkey, 1975-1980 : the State at Stake
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Europe / Eastern, Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Publication Year: 2023
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Benjamin Gourisse
Series: Contemporary Turkey Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
