Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations & Acronyms
Preface
PROLOGUE
1. Minorities during the Single Party Period
2. The Democrat Party in Power
Chapter I: The Democrat Party Years, 1950-1960
- Chapter I: The Democrat Party Years, 1950-1960
- The Democrat Party: Hopes and Expectations
- The Rebirth of the Islamic Movement
- Relations Between the DP, Turkish Jewry and American Jewish Organizations
- The National Election of 1954 and the Minorities
- Questions Surrounding the Use of the Turkish Language
- The Events of September 6-7, 1955
- The National Elections of 1957 and the Minorities
- The Situation of the Jewish Community During the 1950s
- Toward the Revolution of May 27, 1960
Chapter II: From the 1960 Revolution to the 1971 “Memorandum”
- The Revolution of May 27, 1960
- The Dissolution of the Lay Council and the Election of the Chief Rabbi
- The General Elections of 1961
- The Cyprus Question and its Effects on the Jewish Community
- Minorities and the Citizenship Question
- The Six Day War and Its Effects
- The Attempted Arson of the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ensuing Reactions
- The National Elections of 1969: The National Salvation Party
and the Birth of Political Islam
- The Situation of the Jewish Community during the 1960s
Chapter III: From the “Memorandum” of March 12, 1971 to the Military Coup of September 12, 1980
- The Effect of Socio-Economic Conditions
- The 1974 “Peace Operation” on Cyprus and its Effects
- The Situation of the Jewish Community in the 1970s
- Events Leading up to Military Coup of September 12, 1980
Chapter IV: The Years of Military Administration, 1980-1983
- The Aftermath of September 12
- Organizing a Turkish Lobby in the United States
- The Armenian Genocide Question
Chapter V: The Özal Years, 1984-1993
- Relations among Turkey, Israel and American Jewish Organizations
- The Warming of Relations between Turkey and Israel and the Armenian Genocide
- The Attack on the Neve Shalom Synagogue
- The Islamic Movement and Anti-Semitism in the 1980s
- Reconceptualizing Turkey’s Public Relations Activities: The Quincentennial Foundation
- The Situation of Turkey’s Jewish Community in the 1980s (1980-1992)
Chapter VI: The Rise, Fall and Ideological Transformation of Political Islam, 1994-2003
- The Period of Ascendance (1994-1997)
- The Collapse of Political Islam (1997-2001)
- Relations with Fethullah Gülen’s Community
- The Period of AKP Rule (2001- )
- Anti-Semitism and the Intellectual Elites During the 1990s
- Relations between American Jewish Organizations and the Republic of Turkey
- Societal Transformation in Turkey and the Situation of the Minorities
- The Suicide Bombings of Istanbul Synagogues, November 15, 2003
- The Jewish Community During the 1990s
Conclusion
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author