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NEW PERSPECTIVES O N T U R K E Y No. 44 | Spring 2011 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY NEW In memory of Donald Quataert Lectures (1941-2011) Changes of Time: An Aspect of Ottoman PERSPECTIVES Cengiz Kırlı Modernization François Georgeon Articles O N T U R K E Y Economic Crises and the Social Structuring of Book Reviews Economic Hardship: The Impact of the 2001 Tamer Çetin and Feridun Yılmaz, eds. No. 44 | Spring 2011 Turkish Crisis Understanding the Process of Economic Change in Bruce H. Rankin Turkey: An Institutional Approach. New York: Reframing the Ideal Citizen in Turkey: National Nova Science Publishers, 2010. Fikret Şenses Belonging and Economic Success in the Era of Neo-Liberalism Karen Barkey. Empire of Difference: The Ottomans Özlem Altan-Olcay in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge Representation of the Eastern and Southeastern University Press, 2008. Can Nacar Provinces in the Turkish Parliament during the National Struggle and Single-Party Era (1920- Ilham Khuri-Makdisi. The Eastern Mediterranean No. 44 1946) and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914. Ahmet Demirel Berkeley, LA: University of California Press, 2010. Akın Sefer | Fruitless Attempts? The Kurdish Initiative and Spring 2011 Containment of the Kurdish Movement in Elyse Semerdjian. “Off the Straight Path:” Illicit Turkey Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo. Marlies Casier, Joost Jongerden, and Nic Walker New York: Syracuse University Press, 2008. Ramazan Hakkı Öztan Astray and Stranded at the Gates of The European Union: African Transit Migrants in Amy Mills. Streets of Memory: Landscape, İstanbul Tolerance, and National Identity in Istanbul. Deniz Yükseker and Kelly Todd Brewer London: The University of Georgia Press, 2010. Derya Özkan Nicknames and Sobriquets in Ottoman Vernacular Expression Peter O’Brien. European Perceptions of Islam and Güçlü Tülüveli America from Saladin to George W. Bush: Europe’s Fragile Ego Uncovered. New York: Palgrave ISSN 1305-3299 MacMillan, 2009. Nermin Abadan-Unat ISSN 1305-3299 9 7 7 1 3 0 5 3 2 9 0 0 4 NEW PERSPECTIVES O N T U R K E Y New Perspectives on Turkey is published in New Perspectives on Turkey cooperation with the Chair in Contemporary Turkish Homer Kitabevi ve Yayıncılık Ltd. Şti. Studies at the London School of Economics and Sayı: 43/Sonbahar Political Science. Sorumlu Yazı İşleri Müdürü Editors Ayşen Boylu Ayfer Bartu Candan, Boğaziçi University Biray Kolluoğlu, Boğaziçi University Adres Homer Kitabevi ve Yayıncılık Ltd. Şti. 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Yeni Çarşı Caddesi, No: 12/A Yeniçarşı Caddesi, No: 12/A, Galatasaray, Beyoğlu, Galatasaray, Beyoğlu, 34433, İstanbul 34433, İstanbul / Turkey Tel: 0212 249 59 02 www.newperspectivesonturkey.net New Perspectives on Turkey is indexed and abstracted New Perspectives on Turkey and the Chair in by the Social Science Citation Index, Sociological Contemporary Turkish Studies at the London Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, School of Economics and Political Science Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life gratefully acknowledge a generous grant from Türk Ekonomi Bankası for the publication of this Book Design: Emre Çıkınoğlu, BEK journal. Printed in İstanbul ISSN: 1305-3299 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY No. 44 | Fall 2011 5 In memory of Donald Quataert Book Reviews (1941-2011) 197 Tamer Çetin and Feridun Yılmaz, Cengiz Kırlı eds. Understanding the Process of Economic Change in Turkey: An Institutional Articles Approach. New York: Nova Science 11 Economic Crises and the Social Publishers, 2010. Structuring of Economic Hardship: The Fikret Şenses Impact of the 2001 Turkish Crisis Bruce H. Rankin 200 Karen Barkey. Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. New 41 Reframing the Ideal Citizen in Turkey: York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. National Belonging and Economic Success Can Nacar in the Era of Neo-Liberalism Özlem Altan-Olcay 203 Ilham Khuri-Makdisi. The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global 73 Representation of the Eastern and Radicalism, 1860-1914. Berkeley, LA: Southeastern Provinces in the Turkish University of California Press, 2010. Parliament during the National Struggle Akın Sefer and Single-Party Era (1920-1946) Ahmet Demirel 206 Elyse Semerdjian. “Off the Straight Path:” Illicit Sex, Law, and Community 103 Fruitless Attempts? The Kurdish in Ottoman Aleppo. New York: Syracuse Initiative and Containment of the Kurdish University Press, 2008. Movement in Turkey Ramazan Hakkı Öztan Marlies Casier, Joost Jongerden, and Nic Walker 210 Amy Mills. Streets of Memory: 129 Astray and Stranded at the Gates of Landscape, Tolerance, and National Identity The European Union: African Transit in Istanbul. London: The University of Migrants in İstanbul Deniz Yükseker and Kelly Todd Brewer Georgia Press, 2010. Derya Özkan 161 Nicknames and Sobriquets in Ottoman 218 Peter O’Brien. European Perceptions of Vernacular Expression Güçlü Tülüveli Islam and America from Saladin to George W. Bush: Europe’s Fragile Ego Uncovered. Lectures New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. 181 Changes of Time: An Aspect of Nermin Abadan-Unat Ottoman Modernization François Georgeon 210 Book Reviews the Ottomans tried to create a uniform code. Yet, this attitude—namely, creating a religion with a definite beginning and end, without leaving any space for doctrinal ikhtilaf—was the spirit of the age shared by both Ori- entalists and Muslim reformers. This minor quibble aside, Semerdjian’s study is successful in complicating modern perceptions of Islamic law as they are found both in its traditional milieu and within the Islamic world today. It is well worth to pick up and engage with this book. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY Ramazan Hakkı Öztan University of Utah Amy Mills. Streets of Memory: Landscape, Tolerance, and National Identity in Istanbul. London: The University of Georgia Press, 2010, xii+288 pages. Reading Amy Mills’s book had an irrevocable impact on my relationship with the Kuzguncuk neighborhood in İstanbul. It all started in the early 1990s when I visited friends living there in a semi-communal apartment building. They were students of Boğaziçi University, who had moved there, refraining from living in the residential areas generally preferred by Boğaziçi student communities (such as Cihangir and Hisarüstü). Then, Kuzguncuk was only at the very beginning of its gentrification; rents were low enough for students to afford. Rents were no longer cheap when I became re-acquainted with Kuzguncuk in 1998. I was about to move from Ankara to İstanbul and stayed at a close friend’s place for two weeks while I was looking for an apartment in the city. Then I moved to Ortaköy, on the other side of the Bosporus, across from Kuzguncuk, but I kept going back to the neighborhood to visit my friend. During this time I shopped at its grocery store, ate köfte (meatball) at the street ven- dor’s in front of the church on İcadiye Street (which has by now become a small restaurant), had breakfast at Çınaraltı Cafe, ate fish and drank rakı (anis flavored Turkish spirit) at İsmet Baba, and started going to the local hairdresser. We often talked about the old mahalle (neighborhood) atmosphere of Kuzguncuk that Amy Mills discusses in her book. Sharing greetings with the grocer, hot summer night visits to Çınaraltı for the nice breeze it offers, and similar lived experiences are the stuff of my pleasant per- sonal memories about Kuzguncuk from these years. The pleasant mem- 211 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY ory of the place began to change once I started reading Mills’ book. One of the first disturbances was about Ilya’s bostan (vegetable garden). Dur- ing the time when I frequently