The United States and Military Coups in Turkey and Pakistan

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How to be a good guest: American ethnographers in Turkey in the long 1968

“…Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Turkey was one of the most stalwart allies of the United States – a relationship that was enthusiastically supported by most of the population. During this period, first and foremost, collaborations in the military domain expanded to the extent that the Turkish army was entirely remodelled after the US army, a development facilitated by two‐way mobility of the military personnel for training purposes (Aslan 2018: chap. 3).…”

The 15 July abortive coup and post-truth politics in Turkey

“…Accordingly, 15 July was a Gülenist plot with the backing of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (Cizre 2016). Indeed, this argument is not too far-fetched considering both the US support of previous military interventions in Turkey and the Gülenists' war of attrition with the AKP (Aslan 2018;Yavuz and Koç 2016). Nevertheless, blocking proper discussion of the evidence available, AKP instead resorted to the conspiratorial rhetoric of a liberation war being waged against Western imperialists and their in-house proxies.…”

Virtual hajj as a response to demographic and geopolitical pressures

“… 3 About Turkish republican religious governance, see Yakar, 2019 . About Turksih democratization, see Seal, 2021 ; Aslan, 2018 . …”