The Korean War in Turkish Culture and Society

Nadav Solomonovich (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIII, 238 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-84038-9 (ISBN)

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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 whyit 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.

lt;b>Nadav Solomonovich 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.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The War's Reception.- Chapter 3. Islam as a Spiritual Weapon? Religion in Public Discourse and the Turkish Military during the Korean War.- Chapter 4. Literary Representations of War - The Korean War in Contemporary Turkish Literature.- Chapter 5. Seeing War - The Visual Representations of the Korean War in Turkish Media.- Chapter 6. Soldiers' Personal Narratives of War - The War in Memoirs.- 7. Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting the War/

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2022
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 238 p. 7 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	334 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Schlagworte	Cultural Cold War • Democracy • International History • Literature • Memoir • NATO • Pan-Turkism • Peace-Lovers Association • Propaganda • Public Islam • Secularism • Turkish press
ISBN-10	3-030-84038-7 / 3030840387
ISBN-13	978-3-030-84038-9 / 9783030840389
Zustand	Neuware