Turkey in the Cold War Ideology and Culture

Edited by Cangül Örnek, and Çagdas Üngör

Palgrave, 2013

Turkey in the Cold War: Ideology and Culture examines Turkey's Cold War experiences from a social and cultural perspective. Analyzing the local impact of this global confrontation in Turkey, this volume complicates the picture portrayed in the conventional studies on the Cold War era, most of which focused on the country's role in the US-led Western alliance. This volume, by contrast, shifts the focus to the contested Cold War culture in Turkey and examines several of its neglected themes, such as international exhibitions, sport and literature, media and propaganda, as well as the reception of US aid and assistance.

Introduction - Turkey's Cold War: Global Influences, Local Reflections; Cangül Örnek and Çağdaş Üngör
PART I: PROPAGANDA AND DISCOURSE
1. Cold War in the Pulpit: The Presidency of Religious Affairs and Sermons during the Time of Anarchy and Communist Threat; Ceren Kenar and Doğan Gürpınar
2. China and the Turkish Public Opinion during the Cold War: The Case of Cultural Revolution (1966-69); Çağdaş Üngör
3. Cultural Cold War at the İzmir International Fair: 1950s-1960s; Sezgi Durgun
4. Engagement of a Communist Intellectual in the Cold War Ideological Struggle: Nazım Hikmet's 1951 Bulgaria Visit; Gözde Somel and Neslişah Başaran
PART II: CULTURE AND SPORT
5. Issues of Ideology and Identity in Turkish Literature during the Cold War; Çimen Günay Erkol
6. 'The Populist Effect': Promotion and Reception of American Literature in Turkey in the 1950s; Cangül Örnek
7. From Battlefields to Football Fields: Turkish Sports Diplomacy in the Post-World War II Period; Dağhan Irak
PART III: FOREIGN AID AND ASSISTANCE
8. Land-Grant Education in Turkey: Atatürk University and American Technical Assistance, 1954-68; Richard Garlitz
9. Negotiating an Institutional Framework for Turkey's Marshall Plan: Conditions and Limits of Power Inequalities; Burçak Keskin Kozat

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