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The Role of the Military in the Turkish Democracy: Are the Military the Guardians of or a Threat to the Turkish Democracy?

, 2013
The military have played an influential role in Ottoman/Turkish society since the 13th century – the founder of the modern Republic of Turkey also had a military background. Forming the elite and entrenched in the spirit of Kemalist heritage, they have considered themselves the guardians of secularism and democracy in Turkey since the inception of the ...
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Brian Quisenberry Interview

, 2006
Capt. Brian Quisenberry graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1981 and commissioned in the United States Navy.
Quisenberry, Brian L.
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Contesting repression in divided democracies: Can counternarratives reduce support for police violence?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Democracies often struggle to contain police violence, which undermines the rule of law and reproduces inequality by targeting marginalized citizens. Yet, scholars have shown that repressive policing enjoys considerable public support. Focusing on Brazil, we demonstrate that attitudes toward police violence mirror polarization between left ...
Yanilda María González, Natán Skigin
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Turkish Military Terms in Arabic Language

Farabi Journal of Social Sciences, 2016
This article is devoted to the study of Turkish loan-words entered into the language of Arabs, and particularly the military terms. The words in Arabic that have Turkish origin mainly take in those of everyday life usage.
U Alzhanbayeva, D Kokeyeva
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Regulations of the Virginia Military Institute, 1848

Regulations for the Corps of Cadets of the Virginia Military Institute. These regulations governed all aspects of cadet life.
Virginia Military Institute
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Four Questions for Ethnographers Under Trumpian Authoritarianism

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines evolving challenges and ethical dilemmas facing ethnographers working under intensifying authoritarianism in the United States. Because very little of what the United States is experiencing is new, my work here is primarily curatorial in nature, drawing upon the lessons offered by scholars across disciplines in the United
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
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Tatars on the military service to the Ottoman sultans

Золотоордынское обозрение
Research Objectives: Studying the contributions of the Crimean and Nogai Tatars to the military efforts of the Ottoman state from the moment that the Crimean Khanate fell under the Turkish protectorate until the mid-19th century.
Seidametov E.Kh., Sheykhumerov А.А.
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Role of the military in Turkish politics: Case of the 1980 military coup [PDF]

, 2011
1980 military coup d?état was a rupture in Turkish political system and society, in range and consequences comparable at least with the transition to parliamentary democracy in 1946. The causes of the coup were manifold: a malfunctioning parliamentary democracy and weak governments were not able to deal with political terrorism and severe economic ...
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Regulations of the Virginia Military Institute, 1923

, 1923
Regulations for the Corps of Cadets of the Virginia Military Institute. These regulations governed all aspects of cadet life.
Virginia Military Institute
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Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers an ethnographic analysis of Gulf Arab empire‐making in central Sudan, focusing on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition. Through three overlapping vantage points—farm, port, and body—it explores how Emirati investments in Sudanese land, infrastructure, and ...
Nisrin Elamin
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