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Publication Metadata only Diplomacy within the security framework in Turkey and Romania during the Interwar Period(Brill Academic Publishers, 2024) Department of History; Emek, Berk; Barlas, Dilek; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis article aims to highlight shifting diplomatic positions in Turkey and Romania and their stances towards the League of Nations collective security network during the interwar period. It takes a comparative approach to demonstrate the diplomatic activity and strategic decision-making mechanism employed by two strategically important Balkan and Black Sea countries vis-à-vis the fragile international system from the 1920s onwards. The rising threat of revisionism and declining belief in the League’s sanctioning power gradually led these countries to set their differences in foreign policy aside and strengthened the idea of joint regional action in the 1930s. Supported by primary sources from different archives, this comparative study proposes a new outlook, by demonstrating the contribution made by the notions of external threat and common aggressor to changing foreign policy perspectives in both countries. © 2024 Brill Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.Publication Metadata only A nineteenth-century urban ottoman population micro dataset: data extraction and relational database curation from the 1840s pre-census bursa population registers(Nature Portfolio, 2024) Department of History; Kabadayı, Mustafa Erdem; Erünal, Efe; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and HumanitiesIn recent decades, the "big microdata revolution" has transformed access to transcribed historical census data for social science research. However, the population records of the Ottoman Empire, spanning Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa, remained inaccessible to the big microdata ecosystem due to their prolonged unavailability. This publication marks the inaugural release of complete population data for an Ottoman urban center, Bursa, derived from the 1839 population registers. The dataset presents originally non-tabulated register data in a tabular format integrated into a relational Microsoft Access database. Thus, we showcase the extensive and diverse data found in the Ottoman population registers, demonstrating a level of quality and sophistication akin to the censuses conducted worldwide in the nineteenth century. This valuable resource, whose potential has been massively underexploited, is now presented in an accessible format compatible with global microdata repositories. Our aim with this dataset is to enable historical demographic studies for the Ottoman realm and beyond, while also broadening access to the datasets constructed by our large research team.Publication Metadata only The fascist temptation: British and Italian imperial entanglements in the Eastern Mediterranean(Cambridge University Press, 2024) Department of History; Rappas, Alexis; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis article reveals how, in the interwar period, British colonial authorities in Cyprus borrowed from the combination of political authoritarianism and economic development characterising Italian rule in the neighbouring Dodecanese, as both a solution to Greek irredentism and an administration suitable to ‘Mediterranean populations’. British authorities shunned, nonetheless, the chronopolitics and biopolitics buttressing fascist governance, which aimed at the political and cultural assimilation of Dodecanesians into the Italian national community. In conversation with the literature on imperial formations, the article therefore highlights the forms and limitations of the circulation of administrative practices and ideas across European colonial boundaries.Publication Metadata only Marketing sheep in the Ottoman Empire: Erzurum and its trade networks (circa 1780s-1910s)(Oriental Inst Czech Acad Sci, 2023) Department of History; Köksal, Yonca; Nacar, Can; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis paper studies the lucrative sheep trading networks connecting Erzurum with major urban centers extending from Istanbul to Aleppo and Damascus. It traces the evolution of these networks in order to show how the dynamics of the sheep trade changed from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. In opposition to the view that Eastern Anatolia remained largely excluded from domestic and foreign markets during the capitalist integration of the Ottoman economy, it is argued that the province of Erzurum maintained and even reinforced its position in the sheep trade. While sheep exports to Istanbul had increased by the early twentieth century, there was a decline in shipments to the Syrian provinces. The paper analyzes the political, financial, techno- logical, and environmental factors that played a role in this transformation.Publication Metadata only Between lames Bond and losif Stalin(Slavica Publishers, 2020) Department of History; Amar, Tarık Youssef Cyril; Other; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 294014Publication Metadata only Nation-state structures of Turkey and Romania in interwar period and their regional reflections(Hacettepe University, 2022) Department of History; Emek, Berk; PhD Student; Department of History; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThis article discusses the state-building policies during interwar period in Turkey and Romania and the impact of the security-based risk perception on domestic policy. The nationalizing politics that emerged in the economical, political and social fields in line with the establishment and consolidation of the nation-state structure in both countries is evaluated from a comparative perspective. Turkey and Romania aimed at promoting regional and international peace during the given period. However, in a process where nation-states were established and security of the borders was sensitive, the relations between groups living in multi-ethnic regions and the central administration changed generally on the basis of the security concerns. Turkey and Romania, which are treated in the nationalising state category in the literature on interwar period, have followed the politics of centralization in line with regional risks and worked to strengthen the state authority in the multi-ethnic borderlands, namely Eastern Anatolia and Transylvania. The article is composed of three parts. In the first section, the concept of nationalizing state is explained, and Turkey and Romania are evaluated within this term. In the second part, the threat posed by the rising revisionism in Europe, the measures developed in return, and the role of the League of Nations are discussed. Last but not least, based on the analysis of Eastern Anatolia and Transylvania regions, it is discussed to what extent security risks were reflected in state policies in Turkey and Romania together with their results. Based on archives in Turkey, Romania, and the United Kingdom, it is revealed that revisionist targets as well as security risks related to political problems increased the centralization efforts of Turkey and Romania and shaped their official state policies on the axis of security. © 2022, Hacettepe University. All rights reserved.Publication Metadata only Revisiting the Britain-US-Turkey triangle during the transition from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana (1947-1957)(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020) Guvenc, Serhat; Department of History; Department of International Relations; Barlas, Dilek; Yılmaz, Şuhnaz Özbağcı; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of History; Department of International Relations; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 4172; 46805This article analyses the triangular relations between Britain, the United States and Turkey in the volatile Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean region at the advent of the Cold War. It examines the political, economic and military strategies that enabled Turkey to adapt to the transitional period from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana (1947-1957) in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. By focusing on this turbulent decade extending from the Truman Doctrine (1947) to the Eisenhower Doctrine (1957), this study posits that the transition from the waning influence of Britain to the coalitional hegemony of the United States was protracted and multi-layered. In this context, Turkey had to walk a diplomatic tightrope while managing certain aspects of continuity and change in a volatile region.Publication Metadata only The small, the big, and the ugly: persistent challenges of thinking about lviv's Ukrainization(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020) Department of History; Amar, Tarık Youssef Cyril; Other; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 294014Publication Metadata only The historiography of dreaming in medieval Byzantium(Ashgate Publishing, 2014) N/A; Department of History; Magdalino, Paul; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Rethinking nationalism - state projects and community networks in 19th-century Ottoman Empire(Sage Publications Inc, 2008) N/A; Department of History; Köksal, Yonca; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 53333This article challenges the idea that a centralized administrative infrastructure, a common citizenship, and the resulting national belonging run in the same direction in state transformations. Comparing two Ottoman provinces of Edirne and Ankara, the author argues that community networks influence local responses to administrative centralization and national identity formation. In the province of Edirne, dense communal networks that bridged religious and ethnic boundaries maintained local cooperation with state centralization, whereas dense relations within religious and ethnic communities contributed to the failure of the formation of Ottoman national identity. In the province of Ankara, the lack of dense relations connecting different communities prevented reform success in both administrative and ideological dimensions.