Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2021

Contents

Rahşan İNAL: TEA FARMING INDUSTRY IN TURKEY AND SOCIAL ECONOMIC HISTORY 1920-1960

ABSTRACT. This study aims to present the economic and social history of the tea farming industry in Turkey between 1920-1960. In Turkey, the “domestic tea” farming industry was initiated and continued under an initiative led by the nation-state at all stages. The present study investigates the historical process between 1920 and 1960 based on news reports from the central and local press, agricultural journals of the time, and parliamentary records, using also local, and regional historical resources. The state-led initiative is...

Zeynep ÖZARSLAN: CREATIVE AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES AND THE STATE OF ART OF THE ARTS AND CULTURE SECTORS IN TURKEY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC (Turkish)

ABSTRACT. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused serious restrictions on the activities of some of the sub-sectors of the creative and cultural industries. The aim of this study is to examine the state of art of the arts and culture sectors, which are sub-sectors of creative and cultural industries, during the pandemic in Turkey. In this study, the public supports provided by the government and metropolitan municipalities and the supports of the professional associations, trade unions and civil society organizations to the arts and culture sector...

Rıfat BİLGİN & Hülya DİĞER: HOME LIFE SATISFACTION DURING THE GLOBAL OUTBREAK (COVID-19) (Turkish)

ABSTRACT. This study aimed to determine the life satisfaction levels of individuals during the time they spend at home during the global epidemic process. In the population of the research, every individual over the age of 18 who was voluntary and had the mental ability to respond was included. The data of the research were obtained by various social media tools (Instagram, WhatsApp, Google Forms, etc.) through online forms. In this context, the sample of the study consisted of 1,254 people. The data obtained were analyzed via Mann Whitney ...

İlke TAŞDEMİR, Marella BODUR ÜN & Sevgi BALKAN ŞAHİN: ANTI-COAL MOVEMENTS IN TURKEY: THE CASE OF ÇIRPILAR (Turkish)

ABSTRACT. Thanks to such hegemonic discourses as reducing dependence on foreign energy, accelerating economic development or ensuring cheap electricity production, which were employed to create consent in society, thermal power plants have become widespread in Turkey. Of late, environmental movements have emerged against these thermal power plants that threaten human health, the environment, living spaces, and nature. This study examines “the Çırpılar Movement” in Çanakkale, one of the anti-coal power plants movement...

Süleyman Çağrı GÜZEL: “COMPULSORY MOMENT” BEFORE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION: KEMALISM AND MILITARY IN THE GRADUAL REVOLUTION STRATEGY OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION MOVEMENT (Turkish)

ABSTRACT. The National Democratic Revolution (NDR) Movement is one of the most influential movements that affected the Turkish left both theoretically and practically among the socialist groups which increased its dynamism in the 1960s. This movement, which carries the TKP's tradition of gradual revolution to the 1960s and argues that a "democratic revolution" must be carried out before the socialist revolution in this direction, has the determinist perspective of "scientific socialism". In this context, it argues th...

Ufuk S. YÜKSEL: THE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF GERMANY – COMMUNIST PARTY OF GERMANY DUALITY IN THE RISE OF THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS’ PARTY IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC (Turkish)

ABSTRACT. In this study, it is intended to question the effects of antagonism between the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) on the rise of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) within the framework of subjective conditions in the Weimar Republic and to evaluate the class structure of the supporters to whom the NSDAP addresses, based on the internal dynamics of these parties. This analysis will mainly concentrate on the founding period of the Weimar Republic, and the SPD-KPD ...

Furkan YAŞAR: ECONOMIC SANCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS AS A FOREIGN POLICY TOOL BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: THE CASES OF IRAN AND VENEZUELA (Turkish)

ABSTRACT. By the end of the Cold War, as a result of the dissolution in the Eastern Bloc, neoliberal economic relations replaced the threat of war and different tools began to be used in the foreign policy making process. The revisionist attitude of the states and the serious calculation of the costs of war for both winners and losers made economic sanctions more attractive as a foreign policy tool. In this study, economic sanction practices and consequences of the United States are discussed during President Donald Trump administration. Exec...

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