Why Turkey Is Authoritarian w/ Halil Karaveli
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Halil Karaveli to talk about Why Turkey Is Authoritarian. Halil M. Karaveli is a Senior Fellow with the Turkey Center of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center and editor of its publication The Turkey Analyst. His book Why Turkey Is Authoritarian: From Atatürk to Erdoğan is available from Pluto Books.
Follow The Turkey Analyst's coverage at https://www.turkeyanalyst.org/. Why Turkey Is Authoritarian can be bought from Pluto Books using this link https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745337555/why-turkey-is-authoritarian/.
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| 0:00.0 | You remember Den Van Boo? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare. |
| 0:22.9 | But they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:39.3 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki, joined by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the |
| 0:44.6 | School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing |
| 0:49.2 | today? I'm great. Thanks, Henry. And Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you? |
| 0:58.2 | Hello, I'm doing good. Excited for this episode. I am as well. Today, our guest is going to be Halil Karavelli, a senior fellow at the Turkey Center of the Central Asia Caucus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center, |
| 1:11.8 | and the author of the book that we're going to be discussing today, |
| 1:14.9 | why Turkey is authoritarian, from Adaturk to Erdogan, |
| 1:18.1 | which is out from Pluto books. |
| 1:20.1 | And yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. |
| 1:22.8 | Turkey is something that's brought up pretty frequently in the news. |
| 1:26.1 | It's an absolutely major country. But I think |
| 1:29.0 | that the understanding of Turkey in the West is pretty lacking. And I think that this book was a |
| 1:37.3 | pretty good introduction into modern Turkey. What do you guys think of the book? I don't know who |
| 1:42.7 | wants to go first, but let's get some kind of first level thoughts on the book and things that we want to get out of this conversation. Then we'll wrap up later. Brett? Yeah, absolutely. So I was coming into this history knowing relatively little, I think more than the average American, but of course that's a pretty low bar. But, you know, I got into understanding Turkey primarily through the |
| 2:01.8 | Kurdish struggles of the last several years, rising up on the left and becoming interested |
| 2:06.0 | in that particular area of the world. And, you know, obviously in investigating the Turkish |
| 2:12.2 | crackdown on Kurdish people in their borders and without. And so that was always something that brought me into it. |
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