Lexington Books
Pages: 272
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-66691-696-6 • Hardback • September 2022 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-66691-697-3 • eBook • September 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak is the Turkey expert at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (MDC) at Tel Aviv University.
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Historical Background: The Rise of Atatürkism
Chapter 2: Indoctrination of Atatürkism in National Security Studies Textbooks
Chapter 3: Indoctrination of Atatürkism in Religious Culture and Ethics Studies Textbooks
Chapter 4: Indoctrination of Atatürkism in Republic of Turkey, History of its Reforms and Atatürkism textbooks
Chapter 5: Indoctrination of Atatürkism in Civics Studies Textbooks
Chatper 6: The Fall of Atatürkism and the Rise of Islamism: Transformation of the Education System and the School Textbooks under the AKP
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
In this masterful volume, Dr. Cohen Yanarocak tracks Turkey’s sinuous ideological transformation under president Erdoğan—through curriculum and school textbooks. What young Turks learn today will guide how they see the world tomorrow. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in Turkey and its place in the world.
— Soner Cagaptay, author of A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces Turkey’s Uncontainable Forces
Via a thorough study of the textbooks that have instructed Turkish children over the past nearly one hundred years, Dr. Cohen Yanarocak’s book adds vital nuance and texture to our understanding of the evolution of Turkish state ideology since Atatürk’s time, including the past twenty years of AKP control; in so doing, it reveals a worrisome contemporary effort to shape youthful Turkish minds in an anti-American, anti-European, and anti-Israeli direction. This book is an invaluable contribution to understanding the history of the Turkish Republic—and, quite possibly, its future.
— Alan Makovsky, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress
A very impressive and comprehensive analysis of the dramatic ideological upheaval modern Turkey went through. By conducting a thorough content analysis of official Turkish textbooks, Dr. Cohen Yanarocak finds a unique but effective way to explain the undercurrent streams of the Secular-Islamic confrontation. A very original way to examine and explain the rise and fall of Atatürkism.
— Alon Liel, Former Director General Israeli Ministry for Foreign Affairs