Laughing matters : graphic satire reckoning with the 1980 coup in Turkey
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Roma : Istituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino, 2022, Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino
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MARCELLA, Valentina, Laughing matters : graphic satire reckoning with the 1980 coup in Turkey, Roma : Istituto per l’Oriente C.A. Nallino, 2022, Pubblicazioni dell’Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74982
Abstract
Essay on political satire in Turkey and on the cartoons of the Girgir newspaper.
Table of Contents
–– Introduction
1. The military regime forty years later: an enduring legacy
2. The satirical lens
3. The cultural history toolkit
4. Turkey’s graphic satire and “the 1980 prejudice”
5. In and out of the archive
6. Exploring the wider picture
7. Book overview
–– Chapter 1
the military’s rise to power
1. Political, economic and socio–cultural landscape
2. The path to the 1980 coup
3. September 12 1980
4. The 1980–1983 regime and culture
–– Chapter 2
Girgir: between tradition and innovation
1. The birth of gırgır
2. Gırgır and the national cartooning tradition
i. Graphic satire at the dawn of the republic
ii. The 1950 generation
iii. From 1950 generation to innovative Girgir
3. A satirical magazine like no other
i. Voice of common people: amateur and semi-amateur cartoons
ii. Voice of the oppressed: prison cartoons
iii. Exhibition impossible
iv. The political value of the prison cartoons during
the regime
v. Concluding remarks on the specificity of Girgir
–– Chapter 3
girgir in the years 1980 to 1983
1. The cover as a statement
2. Inside the magazine
3. Iconic colours
4. The social and the political
5. Missing topics
6. Censorship, or the Turkish flag and the “ugly woman”
7. General considerations on Gırgır and censorship
–– Chapter 4
business as usual: caricatures of the new political actors
1. The last caricatures of party leaders
2. Civilian rulers make way for the military
3. The caricature featuring Kenan Evren
4. Vices of the military rule, “vice–targets” of the cartoons
i. Turgut özal
ii. A side effect of özal’s policies: bankers
iii. Orhan aldikaçti
iv. İhsan doğramaci
v. Collective caricatures of the political “monsters” of the regime
5. Conclusions to the chapter
–– Chapter 5
satirical anatomy of repression: detention from A to Z
1. Pre–coup low intensity civil war
2. Mass imprisonment
i. Implementation of prison buildings
ii. Prison domestication
iii. The moment of mass arrest
iv. Prison overcrowding
3. The identity of prisoners
i. Labour unionists
ii. Artists and intellectuals
iii. Ordinary people
4. Prison life
i. Prison routine
i. Everyday problems
ii. Performing freedom
iii. Managing emotions
ii. The darkest moments
i. Violence
ii. Torture
5. Invisible scars
6. Conclusions to the chapter
–– Chapter 6
anti-heroes in uniform: satirising the army on the battlefield
1. Genesis of a military comic strip
2. General outline of the Biraz da Savaşalım strip
3. A universal anti‐militarist message
4. Soldiers portraits under the regime
5. Self and public perception of the army within thecartoons
6. The strip in its wider context
7. Conclusions to the chapter
–– Conclusions
1. Summary of findings
2. Epilogue
3. New research horizons
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Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2015