The Turkish Malaise - A Critical Essay
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Western countries are trying to manage this “Turkish crisis” between incomprehension and blind detachment, between appeasement and complicity, between containment and apprehension of seeing this large country decompose in its turn.
In this concise and well-documented essay, the author provides analytical tools to understand the split of a society, between state, nation, religion, imperial myth and the West. The analysis is complemented by interviews with the sociologist Nilüfer Göle and the historian Étienne Copeaux, both of whom have witnessed Turkey’s never-ending transformation.
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About the author
Cengiz Aktar is a political scientist. He teaches the history of political ideas in the 19th century Ottoman Empire, regional and home affairs policies of the European Union, and works on the politics of memory. He is a visiting professor at the University of Athens. He has worked for the United Nations and with the European Union on migration and asylum policies. He has campaigned in Turkey to raise awareness on the Armenian genocide. He contributes to Financial Times, Le Monde and Libération. He is the advisor of the Hrant Dink Foundation and participated in the creation of La Revue du MAUSS.
