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Alliance İsraelite Universelle: Osmanli Yahudilerinin Dönüşümünde Bir İtici Güç
(Pamukkale Üniversitesi, 2020) Görmüş, Evrim
Yahudiler farklı coğrafyalarda yaşasalar da 18. yüzyıla kadar dinsel geleneklere dayanan benzer bir yaşam sürmüşlerdir. Fakat bu benzerlik Aydınlanma ve Fransız Devrimi ile gelen hukuki ve siyasi özgürleşme, sanayi kapitalizmi, haskala gibi gelişmelerile birlikte değişime uğramış, bu sürecin sonunda Batı Avrupa ve Doğu Yahudileri arasında önemli farklılıklar oluşmuştur. Batı Yahudilerinin doğuda yaşayan Yahudilerin kötü hayat şartlarından ticaret, basın gibi yollarla haberdar olmaya başlamaları ile ‘Doğu Yahudiliği Sorunu’ tartışılır hale gelmiştir. Alliance Israélite Universelle yozlaşmış’ ve ‘geri kalmış’ olarak nitelendirilen Orta Doğu ve Kuzey Afrika Yahudilerinin hukuksal ve toplumsal özgürlüklerine kavuşmalarını sağlamak amacıyla 1860yılında Fransız Yahudileri tarafından kurulmuştur. Doğu Yahudilerini ‘yenileştirme’ hedefinin kurumsal-örgütsel yapısını kuran Alliance Israélite Universelle için eğitim, yenileştirme unsurunun ana öğesi olmuştur. Bu makale örgütün özellikle Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda açmış olduğu Alliance okullarının Osmanlı Yahudi cemaatinin dönüşümündeki etkisini, cemaatin batılılaşması ve sekülerleşmesi kapsamında incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır.
Bedouins and In-Between Border Space in Northern Sinai
(2018) Görmüş, Evrim
The northern Sinai as interstice space of contestation offers useful insights concerning the relation between the dynamics of power and resistance. This presentation aims to analyse the complex relationship between the local inhabitants’ belonging and spatial practices by referring to the idea of in-betweenness. The article uses the notion of in-between border space to understand the Bedouins’ changing identity formations within a given spatial situation. It is argued that the decades-long marginalization and oppression of the Bedouins by the Egyptian State turned their borderland region into a space of resistance and leaded to the forming of spatio-temporal identities in-between border space in the northern Sinai.
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Bedouins and In-Between Border Space in the Northern Sinai
(Taylor & Francis, 2019) Görmüş, Evrim
The northern Sinai as interstice space of contestation offers useful insights concerning the relation between the dynamics of power and resistance. This article aims to analyse the complex relationship between the local inhabitants’ belonging and spatial practices by referring to the idea of in-betweenness. The article uses the notion of in-between border space to understand the Bedouins’ changing identity formations within a given spatial situation, as well as to trace the Egyptian State’s spatial variations in achieving social control within its territory. It is argued that the decades-long marginalization and oppression of the Bedouins by the Egyptian State turned their borderland region into a space of resistance and leaded to the forming of spatio-temporal identities in-between border space in the northern Sinai.
Citation - WoS: 8
Citation - Scopus: 8
Business People in War Times, the ‘fluid Capital’ and the ‘shy Diaspora’: the Case of Syrians in Turkey
(Oxford University Press, 2021) Akçalı, Emel; Görmüş, Evrim
Due to intensive conflict, a significant amount of Syrian capital flight has funnelled to Turkey since 2011. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted in five major Turkish cities which have hosted the highest number of Syrian business people, this paper first reveals the convergence of the interests of the host state and of the displaced capital owners, as well as the increasing transnationalization of Syrian economic practices. It then assesses the capacity and/or willingness of the Syrian business people to organize themselves as an interest group regarding their interests in Turkey and to assist the process of conflict resolution in Syria. Finally, the paper reflects upon whether a hybrid identity is in the making within the Syrian business diaspora in Turkey. Our findings suggest that the Syrian business diaspora in Turkey is evolving itself into a transnational business community, and developing hybrid socio-economic practices. Yet, we delineate this flourishing community as ‘shy’ because the issues concerning both domestic and Syrian politics are carefully being avoided to keep stability and unity within. This consequently hinders the Syrian business community to form itself as an interest group in Turkey focused on conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction in Syria.
Business People in War Times, the ‘shy Capital’ and Diaspora Business: the Case of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
(2019) Görmüş, Evrim; Akçalı, Emel
This presentation focuses on the Syrian capital flight to Turkey to examine the capacity and/or willingness of the Syrian diaspora business community to organize themselves as interest groups regarding their political and economic interests in Turkey, and to assist the process of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction in Syria with a focus on remittances, philanthropy work and participation in peace processes etc.The presentation is based on fieldwork carried out inIstanbul, Adana, Mersin, Hatay, Gaziantep and Bursa, where the majority of the Syrian business is located. We conducted a total of 35 individual semi-structured in-depth interviews with Syrian businesspeople, civil society representatives and local chamber of commerce officials in August-October 2018. Based on the findings of our fieldwork, we argue that the patterns of the Syrian business diaspora engagement in Turkey are mainly shaped by the spatial elements, such as the increasing transnationalization of economic practices in the course of the protracted conflict as well as the historical legacies of state, business and market structure in the pre-war Syria.
Diaspora Business: the Economic Contribution of Syrian Refugees To Turkey and Their Political Role in (post-)conflict Resolution
(2018) Akçalı, Emel; Görmüş, Evrim
Capital flight constitutes one of the most important dimensions of the Syrian war, with a significant impact on the current course of the conflict and also the post-conflict process. Since the start of the civil war in March 2011, many business people have ceased operations and moved their assets out of Syria. Due to the simplicity of Turkish business legislation in relation to Syrians and their pre-existing business contacts with Turkey, this country has become a commercial hub for the Syrian business diaspora. The number of companies established with joint Syrian capital has multiplied almost 40-fold since 2011 and trade with Syria in border cities such as Gaziantep, Mersin and Hatay far exceeds 2010 levels (http://www.tepav.org.tr/en/yayin/s/862).
Diaspora Business: the Economic Contribution of Syrian Refugees To Turkey and Their Political Role in (post-)conflict Resolution (conferenceobject )
(2016) Görmüş, Evrim
While most research on the refugees has focused on the socio-economic burden that the refugees bring to the host countries, little has thus far been conducted on the contribution of the refugees’ business activity. Due to the continuing civil war in Syria a significant amount of Syrian capital flight funneled to Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt. This presentation aims to analyze the outcome of such flight by unpacking the different components among Syrian businessmen diaspora and scrutinizing the ways in which their positions within the displaced Syrian community affect their political and economic behaviors in the host countries.
Citation - WoS: 2
Citation - Scopus: 6
Food Banks and Food Insecurity: Cases of Brazil and Turkey
(Taylor & Francis, 2018) Görmüş, Evrim
The ascendency of global neoliberal economic policies seriously challenged universalist and right-based welfare policies and promoted the idea of targeted and selective allocations to the poor with private provision for the better of in both high-income and developing countries since the mid-1980s. This article focuses on food banking as an example of targeted social provisioning and provides contrasting observations from food bank programs in Brazil and Turkey. The article traces some different approaches and practices of food banks, and argues that food banks could be part of the progressive social policies that address the root causes of hunger among developing countries within neoliberal economic restructuring.
Food Banks and Food Insecurity: Cases of Brazil and Turkey (conferenceobject)
(2017) Görmüş, Evrim
This presentation focuses on food banking as an example of targeted social provisioning and provides contrasting observations from food bank programs in Brazil and Turkey. The presentation introduces some different approaches and practices of food banks, and argues that food banks could be part of the progressive social policies that address the root causes of hunger among developing countries within neoliberal economic restructuring.
Citation - WoS: 4
Citation - Scopus: 6
Turkey's Green Imagination: the Spatiality of the Low-Carbon Energy Transition Within the Eu Green Deal
(Uluslararasi Iliskiler Konseyi Dernegi, 2023) Akçalı, Emel; Özel, Soli; Görmüş, Evrim
This article asks the extent to which the EU Green Deal influences the EU periphery today and builds on the spatial conditions of multiple, co-existing decarbonization pathways within the EU Green Deal while problematizing the 'green imagination' of Turkey as an immediate neighbour and a candidate country for membership in the EU. As such, it uncovers that the current low-carbon transition process in Turkey is prone to be shaped by the highly politicized energy market in an authoritarian neoliberal structure on the one hand, and Turkey's priorities in energy issues and hard security on the other. The findings further reveal that Turkey's efforts to use more domestic energy resources to meet its consumption needs might also interfere with its efforts and obligations to decarbonize its energy sector. The scrutiny into the low-carbon energy transition in Turkey accordingl contributes further insight into the consequences of the spatiality of such transitions in an authoritarian neoliberal context, and what other alternative policies can be imagined and put in practice. Thus, more empirical research is warranted to reveal the spatiality of the low-carbon energy transition across various geographical settings. At the same time, the article argues that both the EU and its partners such as Turkey should be weary of creating green utopias when redesigning their green-energy space since utopias tout court may not always stimulate large-scale change in a revolutionary way in terms of sustainability, feasibility, good practice, and inclusiveness in decision-making processes.
Citation - WoS: 1
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Us Policies Adrift in a Levant in Turmoil
(Stradigma, 2018) Özel, Soli; Görmüş, Evrim
The Levant has constituted one of the core areas of interest for US foreign policy since the Second World War. The aim of this article is to shed light on the US policies towards the Levant, mostly during the last two American administrations, to understand how the vicissitudes of the region and of American politics made Washington’s policy towards the Levant look biased, at times incompetent, and most importantly inconsistent. This article examines the changes in approach to the region as a whole from one administration to the next on issues such as the protection of Israel’s sovereignty, supporting friendly regimes, fighting terrorism, and containing Iran. The hesitations and shifts in policy towards Syria are given a longer treatment as they speak both to the yet not finalized American policy towards the Levant but also to show how the US has shifted track and moved away from unseating President Assad to focus more on containing and if possible rolling over Iran.
Citation - WoS: 4
Citation - Scopus: 5
Variegated Forms of Embeddedness: Home-Grown Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Tunisia Under Ben Ali
(Springer, 2020) Görmüş, Evrim; Akçalı, Emel
This article aims to analyse the impact of structural adjustment programmes, widely known as the ‘neoliberal model’, on the resilience of authoritarianism during Ben Ali’s regime in Tunisia, to uncover the possible outcomes of the embedded neoliberal and the authoritarian blending. To do this, it engages with two sets of broad questions. How did the Ben Ali regime continue to maintain the regime’s tight grip on power in Tunisia during a ‘neoliberal’ transformation which in theory aims at reducing state influence? What does the Tunisian example tell us about the nature of embedded neoliberalism and its links with authoritarianism in general? The article answers these questions through the analysis of the novel social policy institutions of economic restructuring that took place during the Ben Ali era, namely the National Solidarity Fund, the Tunisian Solidarity Bank and the National Employment Fund. It concludes that these new tools under ‘neoliberal’ transformation increased state intervention in both politics and the economy, and reproduced the societal dependence on the state. Such form of neoliberalism has helped to sustain authoritarianism, but at the same time led to its demise when the social contract in which selective social benefits were provided in exchange for political loyalty failed.

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