Corporatist Turkey

The Attempt to Control Civil Society, 1920s-1940s

 

 

Corporatism, Reactionary Modernism and Radical Nationalism

 

Visions of Reactionary Modernism

 

Visions of Education Policy under Corporatist Rule

 

Ideological Hegemony over Literary Production

 

Promoting Literature as Propaganda

 

Turkification and Purification of the Language

 

Creation of a Fictional Geography and History for the Nation

 

Controlling the Production and Consumption of Music

 

Attempts to Monopolize the Press and Communication

 

Public Health, Family and Reproduction

 

Monopolizing Sports and Recreation

 

Raising Children as Defenders of the New Regime

 

Anti-femisim and Reactionary Modernist Visions of Womanhood

 

Eugenics, Social Darwinism and Racist Purity

 

Racism, Physical Anthropology and Ethnic Cleansing

 

State Control of Professions through Turkification

 

Promotion of National Production and Visions of Autarky

 

Attempts to Control and Promote Artisanal Production

 

Attempts to Control the Modern/Industrial Sector of the Economy

 

Attempts to Control the Peasantry and the Agricultural Production

 

Social Policy

 

Spatial Control through Rural and Urban Planning

 

Constitutional and Legal Arrangements for a Corporatist State