The ‘tulip age’ was in Turkey generally known and taught as a period of pleasure and entertainment in Ottoman history.
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Trabzon (NATO) Radar Airbase as a Cold War Location
The location of the Trabzon NATO radar base is the city’s most important place Cold War relict. Today, the radar base could be converted into a site for public history.
International Politics, Return to National Memory in Turkey
Turkey has been confronted with an array of domestic and international problems. To face them, the state uses new means to strengthen a national…
Learning History through Television Serials
An increasing number of television serials about Turkish history such as “Payitaht Abdülhamid” or “Resurrection Ertugrul” have been produced in Turkey in the second decade of the 2000s…
The New Turkish History Curriculum
The new Turkish history curriculum, issued in 2017, has brought some innovations, but it still contains some of the deficiencies of the old curriculum. It does not adequately address international history…
Ottoman History and Peace Education
Humanity has been confronted with many problems. In order to solve these issues, peace education can help students to develop skills…
Being a History Teacher in Turkey
Since the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, history teachers (tarih öğretmeni) have been encouraged to foster a Turkish national identity through their teaching. They also face a number of problems, which make their…
Historical Burdens of Turkish Universities
During the long period of Ottoman rule, institutions of tertiary education were considered to be the same as Islamic Schools. However, during the phase of modernisation, these institutions did not fulfil any functions. Institutions of tertiary education comparable to those in Europe were first established …