The Making of Paramilitarism in Turkey

Foreword: Paramilitarism in Turkey: Deception, Performance, and Violence

Ugur UEmit UEngoer

List of Contributors

About the Book

PART I The Origins of Paramilitarism in Modern Turkey

1 Modern Bandits of Purgatory in the Transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic: A Story of Property Transfer in Aintab from Warlords to Urban Elite

UEmit Kurt

PART II Paramilitarism and Raison D'etat

2 Counterinsurgency in Turkey: Coloniality of Paramilitary Forces and Provocative Counterorganisation

Deniz Yonucu

3 At the Intersection of Domestic and Foreign Policy in Turkey: Transformation of the Capacity for Extralegal Violence and Kurdistan Issue

Cagri Kurt

PART III The Functioning of Paramilitarism Abroad and At Home

4 Pro-Turkish State Vigilantism in Europe in the Post-1960s

Mazyar Khoojinian

5 The Politics of Violence and Exclusion: Paramilitary Groups and the Targeting of Alevi Communities in Turkey

Ozan Cavdar

PART IV 1990s: The Heyday of Paramilitarism

6 The Village Guard System: Socio-Anthropology of a Paramilitary Institution in Northern Kurdistan (Turkish Kurdistan)

Adnan Celik

7 Strategically Ambiguous and Deniable: Paramilitary Violence and Psychological Warfare in the 1990s

Yesim Yaprak Yildiz

PART V Post-Truth Paramilitarism

8 The Contractual Functioning of Paramilitary Violence in Turkey: The JITEM Case

OEzlem Has

9 Disfiguring Public Reality: Televisual and Paramilitary Visions

Sidar Bayram