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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 Great catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the shadow of genocide(Cambridge Univ Press, 2018) Department of History; Polatel, Mehmet; Researcher; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/APublication Metadata only Rethinking strategic alignment: the great powers' wedging and Turkey's balancing strategies(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022) 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; 46805The key puzzle that this article explores is how the Great Powers' wedging strategies and Turkey's efforts to balance these powers defined complex strategic alignment dynamics during the 1930s and World War II. We posit that in the 1930s, as Turkey strove to balance the European great powers, these powers resorted to wedging strategies to sway Turkey away from any other sphere of influence. During World War II, increasing US engagement in the region compelled Ankara to utilize a 'dual balancing strategy' to preserve its neutrality, by balancing between the Axis and the Allies and between the British and the Americans. Concomitantly, both Allies and Axis powers utilized predominantly reward-wedging strategies to keep Turkey away from the opposing bloc. We assert that in rethinking strategic alignment more emphasis should be placed on the interactive nature of wedging process and the role and motives of agency.Publication Metadata only The Balkan Entente in Turkish-Yugoslav relations (1934-41): the Yugoslav perspective(Routledge Journals, 2016) Vlasic, Andelko; Department of History; Barlas, Dilek; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 4172By discussing the role of the Balkan Entente within Turkish-Yugoslav relations, this article endeavours to reflect the extent to which the Entente guaranteed security to Turkey and Yugoslavia. It deals with the 1934-41 period, which starts with the formation of the Balkan Entente and ends with the German invasion of Yugoslavia. The article is written mainly based on Yugoslav archival documents and aims to provide an alternative narrative that contests the conventional Turkish view. It also demonstrates that although the political leaders in Turkey and Yugoslavia became more optimistic about the future of the region after having signed the Balkan Entente, their perception of threat changed over time during the period of increasing instability in Europe.Publication Metadata only Three murders and a mandate: on property and French sovereignty in interwar Syria(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021) N/A; Department of History; Rappas, Alexis; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 50773This paper is an investigation into a triple homicide in the French Mandate of Syria in 1925. It first suggests that the official decision to single out the murder of three French land registry employees in the midst of the Great Syrian Revolt, a two-year war against French imperial rule, is revealing of the Mandate's attempts to legitimize its dominion over Syria. It then argues that the capacity in which the three slain agents operated, as employees tasked with the break-up of musha' properties, is central to their demise. Indeed the Mandate advertised the individualization of musha' holdings (based on a rotation of land use rights) as a rational measure meant to improve living standards in rural Syria. But Syrian rebels also perceived such interventions as an attempt by French authorities to circumvent the Mandate-imposed restrictions to their authority through the construction of what is here called 'material sovereignty.'Publication Metadata only Turkey's foreign policy towards Bulgaria and the Turkish minority (1923-1934)(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Department of History; Department of History; Barlas, Dilek; Köksal, Yonca; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 4172; 53333This article sets out to study relations between Turkey and Bulgaria during the Inter-war period of 1923-1934 and its effects on the Turkish minority living in Bulgaria. In bringing international, national and community level dynamics together, it will attempt to show how the relations developed between the Republic of Turkey and Bulgaria affected the conditions of the Turkish minority. Once the diplomatic relationship was established between the two states, Ankara and Sofia made efforts to constrain deliberately the influence of the minority issue on these relations. Consequently, this article asserts that the Turkish minority in Bulgaria constituted rarely, if ever, a factor in its own right that could influence the nature and the direction of the two countries' bilateral relationship for much of the Inter-war era. However, the Bulgarian government began to exert pressure on the Turkish minority, when bilateral relations showed signs of deterioration. Additionally, this article also demonstrates how the reaction of other Balkan countries to regional and international developments had an impact on Turkish-Bulgarian relations and made minorities susceptible to ebbs and flows in bilateral relations.Publication Metadata only Did he really do it? Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, party disloyalty, and the 1923 affair(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014) Department of History; Baker, Mark R.; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThe article uses a variety of documents, published and unpublished, to explore the 1923 arrest, interrogation and 'trial' of Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, often considered the Bolsheviks' leading expert on Muslim affairs in the early Soviet period. Contrary to the historiography on this crucial moment in the development of Soviet nationality policy, I argue that Sultan-Galiev was not Stalin's 'first victim'. Rather, responding to the vagaries of Soviet nationality policy, he did indeed violate party discipline in a number of ways, and was engaged in developing conspiratorial ties outside of the party. In fact, the party leaders, and Stalin in particular, treated him less severely than they could have.Publication Metadata only Nationalizing the multi-ethnic borderlands: state surveillance and security policies in interwar Turkey and Romania(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022) Department of History; Emek, Berk; PhD Student; Department of History; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThis article aims to elucidate Turkey and Romania's state policies in their multi-ethnic frontier regions, namely Eastern Anatolia and Transylvania, and their security-oriented strategies towards those, regarded as a threat to national unity and territorial integrity during the interwar period. Two post-imperial nation-states, Turkey and Romania followed similar policies towards national consolidation, as both aimed at constructing and then consolidating centralized and homogenized nation-states in the 1920s. In this process, the Kurds in Eastern Anatolia and the Hungarians in Transylvania were seen as the primary security risks to the state, because of their demographic concentration, linguistic unity, and dense population in a particular territory, as well as capacity to resist the emerging central authority. Drawing mostly on primary sources, this research demonstrates that the level of conflict in multi-ethnic regions was overwhelmingly affected by the extent of state-imposed security and surveillance policies within the nationalizing framework of interwar Turkey and Romania.Publication Metadata only Teaching a state-required course: the history of the Turkish Revolution(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011) Department of History; Department of History; Barlas, Dilek; Köksal, Yonca; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 4172; 53333This paper studies innovative approaches and challenges to teaching the state required common core course of the history of the Turkish Revolution. The Turkish state believes that teaching the Turkish Revolution to the younger generations helps to spread the ideology of the Turkish Republic. The paper summarizes the history of the course since the foundation of the Turkish Republic and critically discusses its ideological foundations and changes in its methods and premises over time. Teaching a state-required course creates several problems such as lack of student interest and limited exposure to the history of contemporary Turkey. In order to deal with these problems, teaching techniques have been adopted from the New History approach and improved the required curriculum.