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This book analyzes how AKP’s embedded intellectuals operate as media spin doctors, exploring their transformation from passionately engaged intellectuals into apparatchiks.
Doğan Gürpınar is an associate professor at Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ). He has published three books in English: Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 1860–1950 (2013), Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy (2014), and Conspiracy Nation: Conspiracy Theories in Turkey (2019).
1. Introduction: The AKP’s Intellectual Order and Political Technology in Comparative Perspectives.- 2. Quasi-liberal Intellectuals as AKP Apparatchiks: The Second Republic, White Turks, and Other Apologetics.- 3. Islamism, Populism, and Nativism: A Syncretic Brand.- 4. Popular Culture and Conspiracy: Managing the Political Entertainment Scene.- 5.The Rise of Politico Intellectuals: Think Tanks, and the Operators of Political Technology.- 6. Allies: The AKP-MHP Coalition and the Defense Intellectuals.- 7. The State of Turkish Universities during the AKP Rule.- 8. Historians, Ottomanphilia, Perennial Islam, and Contested National Identity in an Era of Cultural War.