It explores why this mattered to Turkish politicians, viewing this as instrumental in achieving the country’s admission to NATO, and whyit mattered to Turkish people more widely, seeing instead a war in the name of universal ideas of freedom, humanity and justice, and comparing the Turkish case to other states that participated in the war.
Nadav Solomonovich is a Research Fellow at the University of Haifa, Israel, having previously studied Islamic and Middle eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of several articles on modern Turkey and late Ottoman Palestine.
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The War’s Reception.- Chapter 3. Islam as a Spiritual Weapon? Religion in Public Discourse and the Turkish Military during the Korean War.- Chapter 4. Literary Representations of War – The Korean War in Contemporary Turkish Literature.- Chapter 5. Seeing War – The Visual Representations of the Korean War in Turkish Media.- Chapter 6. Soldiers’ Personal Narratives of War – The War in Memoirs.- 7. Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting the War/
