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The Korean War in Turkish Culture and Society

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Authors:
  1. Nadav Solomonovich

    1. University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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  • Explores why the Korean War was so prominent in the public consciousness in Turkey

  • Analyses of primary sources, including newspapers, protocols of parliamentary sessions, poems, memoirs, films

  • Examines how Turkish politicians and Turkish people understood the war and its causes

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Nadav Solomonovich
    Pages 1-32

  3. The War’s Reception

    • Nadav Solomonovich
    Pages 33-70

  4. Islam as a Spiritual Weapon? Religion in Public Discourse and the Turkish Military During the Korean War

    • Nadav Solomonovich
    Pages 71-101

  5. Literary Representations of War: The Korean War in Contemporary Turkish Literature

    • Nadav Solomonovich
    Pages 103-134

  6. Seeing War: The Visual Representations of the Korean War in Turkish Media

    • Nadav Solomonovich
    Pages 135-169

  7. Soldiers’ Personal Narratives of War: The War in Memoirs

    • Nadav Solomonovich
    Pages 171-201

  8. Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting the War

    • Nadav Solomonovich
    Pages 203-215

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 217-238
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About this book

This book explores the important role that the Korean War played in Turkish culture and society in the 1950s. Despite the fact that fewer than 15,000 Turkish soldiers served in Korea, this study shows that the Turkish public was exposed to the war in an unprecedented manner, considering the relatively small size of the country’s military contribution. It examines how the Turkish people understood the war and its causes, how propaganda was used to ‘sell’ the war to the public, and the impact of these messages on the Turkish public. Drawing on literary and visual sources, including archival documents, newspapers, protocols of parliamentary sessions, books, poems, plays, memoirs, cartoons and films, the book shows how the propaganda employed by the state and other influential civic groups in Turkey aimed to shape public opinion regarding the Korean War. It explores why this mattered to Turkish politicians, viewing this as instrumental in achieving the country’s admission to NATO, and why it mattered to Turkish people more widely, seeing instead a war in the name of universal ideas of freedom, humanity and justice, and comparing the Turkish case to other states that participated in the war.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Nadav Solomonovich

About the author

Nadav Solomonovich is a Research Fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel, having previously studied Islamic and Middle eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of several articles on modern Turkey and late Ottoman Palestine.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Korean War in Turkish Culture and Society

  • Authors: Nadav Solomonovich

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84036-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84035-8Published: 16 October 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84038-9Published: 16 October 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84036-5Published: 15 October 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 238

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Modern History, History of the Middle East, Cultural History, History of Military, Political History

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