Essays on Ataturk

The state of tourism in Turkey

In 2014, Turkey was ranked the sixth most population destination with over 37 million visitors travelling to see the Turkish historical sites. However, this has changed due to geopolitical and security reasons. While the Turkish government agreed to a ceasefire with the PKK, the recent months has seen increased attacks by ISIS with the latest being the attack on Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul. The increased attacks have led to a decline in the number of tourists visiting Turkey. Besides, the fallout between Turkey and Russia has hurt the Turkish tourism sector (BBC News, 2016). In 2015, the number ...

Search Strategy

The plan is to identify sources available online that are discussing the issue of terrorism. Currently, ISIS (Islamic State) is at the epicentre of global terrorism and the plan is to use credible source that identifies ISIS as the perpetrator or probable endorser of conflict and violence. Therefore, sources need to be identified from recent history that defines the actions taken by ISIS and the impact of their actions. In addition, ISIS also warns in advance about the possible attacks and requests their followers all over the world to take up arms and assassinate people. The sources selected in ...

An ever increasing number of people make use of airports on a daily basis. It is therefore inevitable that the level of security in the airports is much higher when compared to other areas and installations that do not experience as much traffic. As a result, a number of techniques have been devised to detect any potentially harmful objects and/or persons that may put the safety and security of the airport and its users as risk. It is especially the case given the rapid spread of the global terrorism phenomenon which has made air travel a primary target. It ...

Introduction

Anthropology in Turkey is a rich context of gradual changes in people’s culture, social platform and political administration. Political and cultural heritage are among the key elements that have undergone the immense transformation. Efforts towards unification of the Turkish nation depicts change. These efforts led to the dissemination of Ataturk cult to unify the Nation. In the political realm, the first and second constituting declarations pivot the turning point. The 1990s saw the transformation of the PKK strategy with the aim of becoming a democratizing force in Turkey. This paper discusses the state of anthropology in Turkey, emerging ...

The Muslim movements after the Caliphate

After the abolition of the Ottoman Empire, and later the Caliphate in 1924, in the modern Muslim world began "non-Caliphate" period. This process was historically logical, because the theocratic form of government suffered a crisis in the Muslim world, where national movement and bourgeois relations were growing. Nominal power of the Sultan still existed, but only in name. In this situation, the Sultan resorted to Pan-Islamism policy, however corrupt administrative apparatus, a weak army and a weak economy, led this policy to the failure. By the early twentieth century in the country were rapidly spreading European ideas and values, ...

Traditionally, the Kurds were a largely Sunni Muslim nomadic people whose life centered around herding sheep and goats through the plains an highlands of what is now Turkey and Iran. The post World War I break up of the Ottoman Empire did not provide for a separate Kurdistan which forced the Kurds to abandon their previous nomadic lifestyle and establish permanent settlements and a more sedentary way of life in contiguous region that consists of sections of what is now Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. The Treaty of Sevres included provisions that could have established a Kurdish nation, however these were never ...