The Korean War in Turkish culture and society / Nadav Solomonovich.
Solomonovich, Nadav.
2021
DS919.4
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Title The Korean War in Turkish culture and society / Nadav Solomonovich.
Author Solomonovich, Nadav.
ISBN 9783030840365 (electronic bk.)
3030840360 (electronic bk.)
3030840352
9783030840358
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84036-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-84036-5 doi
Call Number DS919.4
Dewey Decimal Classification 951.90423561
Summary 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 the war, 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, including the use of religious propaganda in the public sphere, 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 why it 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. 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.
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Available in Other Form KOREAN WAR IN TURKISH CULTURE AND SOCIETY.
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Introduction
The war's reception
Islam as a spiritual weapon? Religion in public discourse and the Turkish military during the Korean War
Literary representations of war : the Korean War in contemporary Turkish literature
Seeing war : the visual representations of the Korean War in Turkish media
Soldiers' personal narratives of war : the war in memoirs
Conclusion: Remembering and forgetting the War.

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