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The Korean War in Turkish Culture and Society
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Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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Veröffentl.: | 15.10.2021 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9783030840365 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 239 |
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This book explores the important role that the Korean War played in Turkish culture and society in the 1950s. Despite the fact that fewer than 15,000 Turkish soldiers served in Korea, this study shows that the Turkish public was exposed to the war in an unprecedented manner, considering the relatively small size of the country’s military contribution. It examines how the Turkish people understood the war and its causes, how propaganda was used to ‘sell’ the war to the public, and the impact of these messages on the Turkish public. Drawing on literary and visual sources, including archival documents, newspapers, protocols of parliamentary sessions, books, poems, plays, memoirs, cartoons and films, the book shows how the propaganda employed by the state and other influential civic groups in Turkey aimed to shape public opinion regarding the Korean War. It explores why this mattered to Turkish politicians, viewing this as instrumental in achieving the country’s admission to NATO, and why it mattered to Turkish people more widely, seeing instead a war in the name of universal ideas of freedom, humanity and justice, and comparing the Turkish case to other states that participated in the war.
<div>1. Introduction<br></div><div><div>2. The War’s Reception</div><div>3. Islam as a Spiritual Weapon? Religion in Public Discourse and the Turkish Military during the Korean War</div><div>4. Literary Representations of War – The Korean War in Contemporary Turkish Literature</div><div>5. Seeing War – The Visual Representations of the Korean War in Turkish Media</div><div>6. Soldiers’ Personal Narratives of War – The War in Memoirs</div><div>7. Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting the War</div></div><div><br></div>
<b>Nadav Solomonovich</b> is a Research Fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel, having previously studied Islamic and Middle eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of several articles on modern Turkey and late Ottoman Palestine.
<div>This book explores the important role that the Korean War played in Turkish culture and society in the 1950s. Despite the fact that fewer than 15,000 Turkish soldiers served in the war, this study shows that the Turkish public was exposed to the war in an unprecedented manner, considering the relatively small size of the country’s military contribution. It examines how the Turkish people understood the war and its causes, how propaganda was used to ‘sell’ the war to the public, including the use of religious propaganda in the public sphere, and the impact of these messages on the Turkish public. Drawing on literary and visual sources, including archival documents, newspapers, protocols of parliamentary sessions, books, poems, plays, memoirs, cartoons and films, the book shows how the propaganda employed by the state and other influential civic groups in Turkey aimed to shape public opinion regarding the Korean War. It explores why this mattered to Turkish politicians, viewing this as instrumental in achieving the country’s admission to NATO, and why it mattered to Turkish people more widely, seeing instead a war in the name of universal ideas of freedom, humanity and justice, and comparing the Turkish case to other states that participated in the war.<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Nadav Solomonovich</b> is a Research Fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel, having previously studied Islamic and Middle eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of several articles on modern Turkey and late Ottoman Palestine.<br></div>
<p>Explores why the Korean War was so prominent in the public consciousness in Turkey</p><p>Analyses of primary sources, including newspapers, protocols of parliamentary sessions, poems, memoirs, films</p><p>Examines how Turkish politicians and Turkish people understood the war and its causes</p>