The emergence of cooperatives as organizational forms in Turkish history, 1864-1938

Erçek, Mehmet; Soydemir, Cemil Ozan

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2017.17450abstract

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“…Apart from the pseudo-cooperatives of the Ottoman Memleket Sandiks (Erçek and Soydemir, 2017) and the ephemeral consumption cooperatives in the Constitutional Ottoman era (Saka, 1962) Birgen, 1930a). This Trust used to collect fig products from peasants at low prices employing the local merchants.…”

Section: The Aydin Fig Producer Cooperative 1913-1935mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, historical records show that Turkish cooperatives display a stark contrast with their European counterparts in terms of their relations with and expectations from the state. The relationship between the Turkish state and cooperatives started with the first launch of the Ottoman Memleket Sandiks, a pseudo-cooperative form, in 1863 by an omnipotent statesman of his times, Midhat Pasha (Erçek and Soydemir, 2017). However, as time elapsed, these organizations gradually turned into state apparatuses, and finally, they became the offshoots of the state-owned Ziraat Bank in 1888 (Hazar, 1990).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Discursive struggles over the Turkish agricultural cooperative field: liberal vs etatist frames during the early republican era, 1930-1933

Soydemir¹,

Erçek²

2020

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Purpose -This study aims to solve a historical puzzle in Turkish cooperative history and illuminate the failure of a discursive medium, the journal of Türk Kooperatifçisi, to realize its ambitious goals of disseminating liberal ideas into the field of agricultural cooperatives. Given the strong state influence on Turkish cooperatives for over a century, this article strives to articulate when and how the anti-etatist cooperative discourse experienced an absolute defeat in the face of state hegemony. Methodology -This historical case study carries out hermeneutical discourse analysis on the archival data collected from the National Library of Turkey. Drawing on the first Turkish cooperative periodical, namely the Türk Kooperatifçisi, the researchers have read 214 articles, amounting to 966 pages. After a systematic interpretation of the collected data, the researchers have further situated archival evidence onto a plot and accordingly constructed a historical narrative, thereby illuminating the underlying reasons for the short life span (1930)(1931)(1932)(1933) of a liberal cooperative periodical in early Republican Turkey. Findings-The findings of this study suggest that towards the end of the 1920s, the sharp turn in the economic policy of Turkey triggered a series of events, leading the agricultural cooperatives to become state apparatuses. Correspondingly, the liberal frame regressed in the face of the etatist frame and became defeated in the discursive arena. Conclusion-The contest between frames both shapes and becomes shaped by the ideological shift in the Turkish state polity. However, this macro-level change yielded in the Turkish agricultural-cooperative field an open forum where opposing discourses challenge for the settlement of expedient cooperatives.

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Section: The Aydin Fig Producer Cooperative 1913-1935mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%