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B. Balcı & T. Liles, "Turkey’s Comeback to Central Asia", Insight Turkey, 20(4) 2018, p. 11-26. Lien

As regularly noted in academic sources and regional analyses, Turkey is situated at the crossroads of several regions that were historically dominated or targeted by Ottoman rulers. Regardless of what the leadership of post-Ottoman Turkey may have intended, the country has always been sensitive to political developments in the Middle East, the Balkans, the wider Black Sea region and the Mediterranean. Although never part of the Ottoman Empire, post-Soviet Central Asia has garnered equally strong interest among Turkish policymakers, not least because of ethnic, linguistic, and religious commonalities. Yet, Central Asia’s position in Turkish foreign policy has received comparatively scant analytical attention in recent years, in part due to Turkey’s deepening involvement in the Syrian civil war since 2013 and the concomitant deterioration in relations with its traditional Western allies. Nevertheless, despite foreign policy failures close to its own borders, Turkey has developed and maintained mostly positive relations with the Central Asian republics.

This commentary provides an overview of Turkish foreign policy in Central Asia and aims to shed light on Ankara’s multifaceted approach to the region. Our main argument is that Turkey’s Central Asia policy –although initially shaped by a romanticized and unrealistic pan-Turkic worldview– witnessed a fundamental reorientation towards more achievable policy goals from the mid-1990s. While ethnolinguistic identity never completely disappeared from Turkish policy vis-à-vis Central Asia, Turkey has largely dispensed with its pan-Turkic aspirations and has increasingly relied on a sophisticated combination of bilateral relations, multilateral institutions, economic linkages, and soft power initiatives to further its aims in the region.

Deniz Pelek “Syrian Refugees as Seasonal Migrant Workers: Re-Construction of Unequal Power Relations in Turkish Agriculture", Journal of Refugee Studies, published: 16 October 2018, DOI: 10.1093/jrs/fey050

This article examines the case of Syrian refugees as seasonal migrant workers in Turkey and critically discusses the working and living conditions fostering their relative vulnerability compared to other workers. Syrian refugees are subject to discriminatory practices in terms of lower wages, longer working hours and improper sheltering conditions. This article explores how unequal power relations between ethnically different groups of workers in the agricultural sector are (re)constructed and the consequences of the emergence of Syrian refugees as a novel class. The essential aim of this study is to unravel the process and practice of ethnically hierarchized agricultural labour market after the entrance of refugees. To that effect, the empirical data was gathered through the ethnographic fieldwork (based on semi-structured interviews and participant observation) carried out in Manisa in August of 2013 and 2014 and in Adana-Mersin in September 2013 and February 2015. This study looks into the ways in which actors on farms (workers, labour intermediaries, land owners, village dwellers and state representatives) have responded to the current situation with regard to three controversial subjects: migrant employment, legal framework and the politics on Syrian refugees. It is argued that externalization of labour force realizes through creating new layers, which necessitates the construction of new ethnic categories such as Syrian refugees.

AKSAZ Elif, « Les sciences sociales nationales et le « transnationalisme des migrants ». Continuité et rupture dans les approches suivies en France et en Turquie pour étudier l’émigration turque vers l’Europe », Anatoli, De l’Adriatique à la Caspienne. Territoires, politique, sociétés, n° 9, « Migrants et réfugiés en Turquie, dans leur contexte historique, politique et social », sous la direction de Elif AKSAZ et Catherine WIHTOL de WENDEN, pp. 155-168.

Bayram Balcı, Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union, Londres, Hurst, 2018. https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/islam-central-asia-caucasus-since-fall-soviet-union/

With the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, a major turning point in all former Soviet republics, Central Asian and Caucasian countries began to reflect on their history and identities. As a consequence of their opening up to the global exchange of ideas, various strains of Islam and trends in Islamic thought have nourished the Islamic revival that had already started in the context of glasnost and perestroika—from Turkey, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, and from the Indian subcontinent; the four regions with strong ties to Central Asian and Caucasian Islam in the years before Soviet occupation.

Bayram Balci seeks to analyse how these new Islamic influences have reached local societies and how they have interacted with pre-existing religious belief and practice. Combining exceptional erudition with rare first-hand research, Balci’s book provides a sophisticated account of both the internal dynamics and external influences in the evolution of Islam in the region.

Filiz Hervet "Revenue sharing: A Tool to Produce Urban Land and Residential Megaprojects in Istanbul" in Erwin Hepperle et al. (dirs.), Opportunities and Constraints of Land Management in Local and Regional Development. Integrated Knowledge, Factors and Trade-offs, Zurich, vdf Hochschule Verlag AG an der ETH Zürich, pp. 223-236. DOI: 10.3218/3928-3

 

 

Edited by Jean-François Polo

Besiktas football team supporter club Carşı members hijacked a bulldozer and chased police vehicles during Gezi protests, 30 December 2013.
Credits : Gezginrocker

Anaïs Lamesa "Rock-Cut Tombs and Churches in Cappadocia During the Roman and Byzantine Periods. The Analysis of Chaines Operatoires to Understand the Economy and Sociology of the Building Sites", in Martin GODON (éd.), Merging Techniques & Cultures. Technological Approaches in Archaeology, Istanbul 24-25 Novembre 2015, 6èmes Rencontres d'archéologie de l'IFÉA, Istanbul, 2018. ISBN 978-2-36245-071-6

Martin GODON (éd.), Merging Techniques & Cultures. Technological Approaches in Archaeology, Istanbul 24-25 Novembre 2015, 6èmes Rencontres d'archéologie de l'IFÉA, Istanbul, 2018. ISBN 978-2-36245-071-6

This edition of the Sixth IFEA Archaeological Meeting presents a compilation of texts dedicated to technological approaches in material studies. The central subject of this book is to show some of the diversity of researches in this field, paying particular attention to Anthropology of techniques, methodology, and development of technological processes’ studies in Turkey. Technological choices, cultural implications and environmental or technical determinism in the development of technological processes are also discussed throughout the different articles.

We conceived this book as an educational support for students and researchers eager to discover the Anthropology of techniques and its related research methodologies. While delivering specific examples from lithic, rock cutting, ornaments making and pottery studies, a specific care is given to the bibliographical references, some of them available in the IFÉA’s library, to help the reader develop his knowledge and accompany him further in his research.

116 pp, pb, articles in English and French.

  • Introduction / Martin Godon 
  • Martin Godon / In the Maze of Ceramic Studies: How to Address Archaeological Productions? 
  • Orlene McIlfatrick - Jennifer Ross / Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Middle and Late Iron Age Pottery Paint Pigments from Çadır Höyük, Yozgat Province, Central Anatolia
  • Denis Guilbeau / The Organisation of the Aegean first Farming Communities Through the Technological Study of the Chipped Stones. The Example of Uğurlu-Zeytinlik (Gökçeada Island, Turkey)
  • Jean-Claude Bessac / La Taille Rupestre en Asie Mineure Antique : Ébauche d’un Classement du Difficultes Techniques dans les Roches Sedimentaires
  • Anaïs Lamesa / Rock-Cut Tombs and Churches in Cappadocia During the Roman and Byzantine Periods. The Analaysis of Chaines Operatoires to Understand the Economy and Sociology of the Building Sites 
  • Emma L. Baysal / Chalcolithic Personal Ornaments: Transformative Technologies, Speciliazition and Long Distance Contacs

  • ANNEXES

  • Martin Godon / Bibliographic Digression Among IFEA’S Library References
  • Martin Godon / Short Multilingual Vocabulary

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PÉROUSE Jean-François et KAYA Sümbül, "249 contro 301. Ossessione sicuritaria e rassegnazione organizzata nell’affrontare i rischi ambientali, sanitari ed economici: il caso turco", in S. Palidda (dir.), Resistenze ai disastri sanitari, ambientali ed economici nel Mediterraneo, Doc(k)s, 2018. ISBN 978-88-6548-236-0

Jean François Pérouse e Sümbül Kaya descrivono ilcaso della Turchia mostrando come il contro-colpo di Stato da parte del dittatore Erdoğan permetta di occultare tutti i disastri e l’aggravamentodelle condizioni di vita della popolazione nonché la violazione dei diritti edelle libertà in un paese devastato da un forte sviluppo neoliberista.

M. Assénat (dir.). Les jardins de l’Hevsel, paradis intranquilles [Patrimoines au présent 7], Istanbul, IFEA, 2018 lien

Cette publication collective est la deuxième d’une série de travaux qui s’appuient sur un programme de recherches AMIDA - relevant lui-même des programmes MISTRALS/ENVI-Med/CNRS – auquel participent de nombreux partenaires, issus des universités, du monde de la recherche, des institutions ou associations de la société civile, et qui s’est tenu les 26 et 27 octobre 2015 à Montpellier. Ont été cette année entendues différentes communications qui cherchaient à mettre en évidence, par des voies et des méthodes diverses, les traces et signes que les jardins de l’Hevsel avaient légués à la postérité ; nous avons également cherché à consolider les espérances et les dynamiques que porte pour le futur leur classement au Patrimoine Mondial de l’UNESCO et les projets de réhabilitation qui lui sont associés.

Bayram Balcı « Situating the Gülen Movement in France and in Europe », Politics, Religion & Ideology, Volume 19, 2018 - Issue 1: Ruin or Resilience? The Future of the Gülen, pp. 69-80 https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2018.1453262

Fethullah Gülen’s Turkish socio-religious movement has been active in Europe for over a decade in the spheres of education and interfaith dialogue. Operating outside Turkey and with relative freedom of association and expression, the Gülen movement has begun to carve out its niche in European Islam. Unlike in the United States, where supporters have chartered full-time schools, members of the Gülen movement in France and Germany mostly offer after-school tutorial services. It is within these programs that Fethullah Gülen’s moral and ethical worldview is being exposed to increasing numbers of young people of mainly Turkish descent. These activities elude easy categorization as religious commitment. Yet the Gülen movement remains an Islamic organization that is directly implicated in the religious sphere because of its explicitly universalistic and humanistic approach. Rather than aiming at literally spreading the religion of Islam, the organization works to improve Islam’s public image in Western contexts.

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