Contents
List of Contributors / viii
Acknowledgements / ix
1 Introduction
Andrew Finkel and Nükhet Sirman / 1
2 State, Village and Gender in Western Turkey
Nükhet Sirman / 21
3 The Turkish Army in Politics, 1960-73
William Hale / 53
4 The Greywolves as Metaphor
Ayşe Neviye Çaglar / 79
5 Politics and Procedure in the 1987 Turkish General Election
Andrew Finkel and William Hale / 103
6 The Place of Parliament in Turkey
Bülent Tanör / 139
7 Class and Cllentellsm in the Republican People's Party
Ayşe Güneş - Ayata / 159
8 Municipal Politics and the State in Contemporary Turkey
Andrew Finkel / 185
9 The Politics of Turkish Development Strategies
Atila Eralp / 219
10 Women in the Changing Political Associations of the 1980s
Șirin Tekeli / 259
11 Kurdish Tribal Organisation and Local Political Processes
Lale Yalçın-Heckmann / 289
List of Contributors
Ayşe Neviye Çaglar is a Ph.D. student at
McGill University currently living and researching in Berlin.
Atila Eralp lectures in the Department of International Relations at the
Middle East Technical University.
Andrew Finkel taught at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.
He now lives in London where he is a writer and commentator on Turkish affairs.
Ayşe Güneş-Ayata lectures on political sociology in the
Department of Public Administration at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara.
William Hale was formerly Chairman of the Politics Department at the
University of Durham and has recently joined the staff of the
School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
Nükhet Sirman lectures in anthropology at the
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.
Bülent Tanör is a former lecturer in the Faculty of Law of
Istanbul University. He continues to publish as a constitutional jurist.
Șirin Tekeli is a former lecturer in political science at Istanbul University.
She is well known for her writings on Turkish women and feminism.
Lale Yalçın-Heckmann is a former lecturer in anthropology at the
Middle East Technical University, Ankara. She currently resides in Nümberg. | 
