Turkey in the Cold War

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Turkey’s Cold War: Global Influences, Local Manifestations

   1. Introduction: Turkey’s Cold War: Global Influences, Local Manifestations

      • Cangül Örnek, Çağdaş Üngör

      Pages 1-18

3. Propoganda and Discourse

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Cold War in the Pulpit: The Presidency of Religious Affairs and Sermons during the Time of Anarchy and Communist Threat

      • Ceren Kenar, Doğan Gürpınar

      Pages 21-46

   3. China and Turkish Public Opinion during the Cold War: The Case of Cultural Revolution (1966–69)

      • Çağdaş Üngör

      Pages 47-66

   4. Cultural Cold War at the Izmir International Fair: 1950s–60s

      • Sezgi Durgun

      Pages 67-86

   5. Engagement of a Communist Intellectual in the Cold War Ideological Struggle: Nâzım Hikmet’s 1951 Bulgaria Visit

      • Gözde Somel, Neslişah Lemon Başaran

      Pages 87-105

4. Culture and Sport

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Issues of Ideology and Identity in Turkish Literature during the Cold War

      • Çimen Günay-Erkol

      Pages 109-129

   3. The Populist Effect’: Promotion and Reception of American Literature in Turkey in the 1950s

      • Cangül Örnek

      Pages 130-157

   4. From Battlefields to Football Fields: Turkish Sports Diplomacy in the Post-Second World War Period

      • Dağhan Irak

      Pages 158-173

5. Foreign Aid and Assistance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Land-Grant Education in Turkey: Atatürk University and American Technical Assistance, 1954–68

      • Richard Garlitz

      Pages 177-197

   3. Negotiating an Institutional Framework for Turkey’s Marshall Plan: The Conditions and Limits of Power Inequalities

      • Burçak Keskin-Kozat

      Pages 198-218

6. Back Matter

   Pages 219-223

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This volume examines the cultural and ideological dimensions of the Cold War in Turkey. Departing from the conventional focus on diplomacy and military, the collection focuses on Cold War's impact on Turkish society and intellectuals. It includes chapters on media and propaganda, literature, sports, as well as foreign aid and assistance.

• TURKISH INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
• TURKISH SOCIAL HISTORY
• COLD WAR HISTORY
• and POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
• Battlefield
• Cold War
• communism
• diplomacy
• ideology
• media
• revolution
• World War I
• World War II

• Maltepe University, Turkey

  Cangül Örnek

• Marmara University, Turkey

  Çağdaş Üngör

Nesli?ah Leman Ba?aran, PhD Student, Strasbourg University, France Sezgi Durgun, Lecturer, Marmara University, Turkey Çimen Günay Erkol, Assistant Professor, Ozyegin University, Turkey Richard Garlitz, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Martin, USA Do?an Gürp?nar, Lecturer, Fatih University, Turkey Da?han Irak, independent researcher and a sports writer Ceren Kenar, PhD Student, American University of Beirut Burçak Keskin-Kozat, Associate Director, Stanford University, USA Gözde Somel, PhD Student, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

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