Toward a Cultural History of the Cold War in Turkey: Ideological dynamics, cultural production, media

Fulvio Bertuccelli

Dec 2024 · Sapienza Università Editrice

About this ebook

Turkey’s position as the only Muslim-majority member of NATO, coupled with its pivotal role in pursuing Western interests in the Middle East and Western Europe, has attracted significant scholarly attention, particularly in the fields of diplomatic and international relations history. In contrast, the cultural and ideological dimensions of the Cold War have begun to be studied systematically only in recent years. In this light, the book is an attempt to present to an international audience some tassels of the complex mosaic of Turkey’s Cold War by focusing on its cultural and ideological dimensions. Adopting a variety of disciplinary approaches, the essays in this collection examine the interconnections between politics and culture, the anti-communist intellectual landscape, and the role of cultural production and the media, questioning how the global dynamics of the Cold War affected political, cultural, and social change in Turkey.

About the author

Fulvio Bertuccelli is a researcher on the political and cultural history of Turkey and a literary translator from Turkish into Italian. He has held the position of research fellow in History of Eastern Europe at Sapienza University of Rome, as well as that of adjunct professor of History of Islamic Countries at the University of Bologna.