Kubilay Icon of Secularism

Located on a hilltop in Menemen, Izmir, the monument to Turkey’s “first martyr of secularism,” Kubilay, has recently become a major site for the defenders of secularism against the AKP government. Isolated from the town below and surrounded by competing sacred sites, this monument reflects the gap between national history and alternative local histories

The Emergence of New Islamic Economic and Business Moralities

This article aims to explore the sources of the observed transformation in the embeddedness of economic, business, and financial practices of Muslim individuals in comparison to premodern period Muslims. It argues that the predomination of instrumental reasoning in modern times, as opposed to substantive morality in everyday practice, is one of the main reasons behind the transformation of embeddedness of Muslim individuals. Instrumental reasoning, being the dominant methodology, leads to diminished submergence in social relations; that is not limited to interpersonal relationships, but further extended to the core religious acts. How such an emergent economic and business morality is reconciled with the Islamic substantive morality is examined. It is argued that “transformation of exception into norm” is the main method used to reconcile instrumental reasoning with Islamic law in fulfilling religious obligations, at least in terms of fulfilling the form and in complying with the necessities of modern life. This has led to the emergence of new economic and business moralities

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State Rituals in Turkey: Commemorating the Gazi and Kubilay the Martyr

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From Museum to National Temple: Hagia Sophia as a nationalist site of memory in the 1950s and 1960s

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This article focuses on Birlesen Yollar/Crossroads (Yucel cakmakli, 1970), which pioneered the Islamic National Cinema Movement in Turkey. The film discursively constructed Turkish secularist modernization as cosmetic Westernization and promoted the IslamFilm, Radio, TelevisionFilm, Radio & Televisio

Conference report on “Ottoman Continuities – Republican Inventions: Symposium in Honor of Erik Jan Zürcher”, 23–25. August 2018, Leiden University

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Evolution of seismic hazard maps in Turkey

A review on the historical evolution of seismic hazard maps in Turkey is followed by summarizing the important aspects of the updated national probabilistic seismic hazard maps. Comparisons with the predecessor probabilistic seismic hazard maps as well as the implications on the national design codes conclude the paper. © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature.Acknowledgements T-SHM project is granted by AFAD and financially supported by TCIP. The members of this project (the co-authors of this paper) express their sincere gratitude to the administrations of these two entities, in particular the currently acting and former presidents of AFAD Dr. Mehmet Güllüog^lu, Mr. Halis Bilden and Dr. Fuad Oktay; the acting and former directors of AFAD Earthquake Department Dr. Murat Nurlu and Mr. Ulubey C¸eken; the AFAD project coordination team Mrs. Nazan Yılmaz Kılıc¸, Mrs. 'lknur Dalyan and Mr. Cenk Erkmen; the deputy director general of TCIP Mr. İsmet Güngör and the general secretary of TCIP Mrs. Serpil Öztürk. The valuable comments of the project reviewers are also greatly appreciated by the project team. This paper is reviewed by Professor Julian J. Bommer at Imperial College and Professor Abdullah Sandıkkaya at Hacettepe University. Their comments improved some of the discussions and illustrations in the paper. Finally, the first author appreciates the help of Prof. S¸es¸etyan in the preparation of Table 1 as well as Professor Özkan Kale and Mrs. Senem Tekin for the preparation/improvement of many figures in the paper