...Özge Serin Through a consideration of Turkish Marxist intellectual Hikmet Kıvılcımlı's (1902–71) translation of Wage Labor and Capital , this essay examines the relation between conceptual translation and language in the historical conjuncture of the Kemalist revolution that brought about a radical...

...Nergis Ertürk This article offers a critical overview of the Turkish Republican language reforms, contextualizing the reforms as part of a discourse of phonocentrism—a programmatic identification of the diglossia of Ottoman Turkish and its writing system as an “inadequacy” and a problem—which...

...Nergis Ertürk “Socialism,” Régis Debray has written, “was born with a printers’ docket around its neck. . . . Book, school, newspaper: for the party militant, the greatest emphasis lay on the third.” This essay addresses the imagination of an underground press in the Turkish communist Nâzım...

...Arif Dirlik This discussion elaborates on Susan Buck-Morss's critique of the political thought of the Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, in her essay, “Democracy: An Unfinished Project.” Buck-Morss's critique provides occasion for reflecting on a challenge that faces radical criticism: how...

...Bruce Robbins In this interview, conducted at Columbia University in the fall of 2013, Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk discusses the trajectory of his own novels, what has and has not changed in the genre's social aspirations and challenges, its characteristic topics and settings, its...

... It is reported that when the Chinese want to curse someone, they say, “I hope you live in interesting times.” Well, Turkey, at some stage, might have had a Chinese enemy, because “interesting times” are a constant fea- ture of Turkish political life. Foreign journalists living in Turkey often express...

... in the his- tory of anti-imperialism 3 the First Congress of the Peoples of the East is often considered a turning point in the history of postcoloniality. Incorpo- rating statements opposing British imperialism delivered in Russian, Ger- man, English, French, Bulgarian, Persian, Turkish, Azerbaijani...

... and hate, and deeply compelled by the impact William Butler Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium” had made on me when I first read it in college, I wanted to combine the flight from Athens with an opportunity to visit the remains of Byzantium in the modern Turkish metropolis. I wanted to see if I too...

...?] . Tübingen : Max Niemeyer Verlag . Iğsız Aslı . 2018 . Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange . Palo Alto, CA : Stanford University Press . Kısakürek Necip Fazıl . 1993 . Dünya bir I nkılâp Bekliyor [The World Awaits a Revolution] . Istanbul...

... been fully comfortable with the facts and the tasks of translation, either. In his 2004 memoir, Bir Ömrün Kıyılarında: Anılar (On the Shores of a Life: Memories), Orhan Suda (1929– 2014), the Turkish translator of Karl Marx’s Zur Kritik der politischen Ökono- We thank our contributors...

... variation, and that is the rendering of the Turkish yazilar as “essays” rather than “writings.” One must forego the temptation, for fear of too much digression, to elaborate on the significance ,(muhākāh) ,of the Arabic-derived term Hikaye—the cognate of which is how the Arabic Aristotelian...

... . https://web.education.wisc.edu/nwhillman/index.php/2017/02/09/state-funding-trends-for-the-uw-system/ . IPS Communication Foundation . 2002 . “ Turkish Cypriot Women Send Henna to Hawks .” Bianet English , December 17 , 2002 . http://bianet.org/english/politics/15372-turkish-cypriot-women...

... grammatology behind all cultures of notation, which enables us, examiners, to deem all forms of notation on the same plane and call them “writing” in advance, and then go on to think 3. Benjamin C. Fortna, “Learning to Read in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic,” Comparative Studies...

... to the philologist’s phobia of non-Western languages, his reluctance (in contrast to his Istanbul colleague Spitzer) to risk scholarly engagement with cultures falling outside of the Holy Roman Empire. Auer- bach’s relative silence on President Kemal Atatürk’s instigation of modern Turkish—a radical reform...

... about European literature in Istan- bul, a city where East and West at once collide and merge, would prove to stimulate dynamic and active reading. The Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk sees East and West as the “two spirits of Turkey as one.” He also views the “eternal fight between East and West...

... of a Turkish Republic. There was no long stretch of isolation from the West followed by an effort to imitate the West. Instead, the development of Turkish republicanism bespeaks a continuity of Western history, starting in Greco-Roman antiquity. If Turkish republicanism was distinctive vis-à-vis French...

... and the Cold War: Diplomacy, Rivalry and Anti-Colonialism after the Civil Conflict. He has written extensively on modern Greek history and politics, Greek-Turkish relations, and the history and politics of Egypt. He has contributed press articles to The Guardian , Kathimerini , Ta Nea , EfSyn , Anti...

... publications. Her work has been translated into German, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, French, and Turkish. Howard Eiland taught literature at MIT from 1983 to 2014. He has published articles on twentieth-century literature and philosophy and is coauthor, with Michael W. Jennings, of Walter Benjamin...

... and promoted in the early years of the Turkish republic), Davutoğlu’s appeal to the cultural authenticity of Islam appeared not only counterhegemonic but courageous. Intellectually, it is not the Islamic thematics that concerns me in Davu- toğlu’s approach. Rather, it is his reliance on certain...

... is a journalist and writer based in Germany. His writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Intercept, TRT (Turkish Radio and TV), Middle East Eye, among others. His book, Tod per Knopfdruck (2017) is one of the first in- depth studies of US drone warfare. He can be reached at [email protected]. 202...