Marc Aymes, PhD (2005), Aix-Marseille 1 University, is a permanent research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. His works focus on Mediterranean provincials and forging Ottomans. He currently serves as an editor of the European Journal of Turkish Studies and of the journal Labyrinthe: Atelier interdisciplinaire. His most recent publications include A Provincial History of the Ottoman Empire: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2014).Benjamin Gourisse, PhD (2010) Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris), is an associate professor of political science at Paris-Dauphine University. He is the autor of La Violence politique en Turquie, l’État en jeu (1975-1980) (Karthala, 2014). Élise Massicard, PhD (2002), Institut d’Études Politiques (Paris), is a permanent research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Her works focus on the political sociology of contemporary Turkey. She has authored The Alevis in Turkey and Europe (Routledge, 2012) and co-edited Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party (Routledge, 2013).

“This book is not only a substantial contribution to the study of the Turkish State in particular, but also a valuable volume for State studies in general.”Dilek Yankaya in ERIS Vol. 5, Issue 2/2018, 66–70https://budrich-journals.de/index.php/eris/article/view/32807

• List of Tables and FiguresList of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroductory Note1. Order and Compromise: The Concrete Realities of Public Action in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, Benjamin Gourisse2. Defective Agency, Marc Aymes3. Is it Time to Stop Speaking about Ottoman Modernisation?, Olivier Bouquet4. The Linguist and the Politician: The Türk Dil Kurumu and the Field of Power in the 1930-40s, Emmanuel Szurek5. An Imposed or a Negotiated Laiklik? The Administration of the Teaching of Islam in Single-Party Turkey, Nathalie Clayer6. “The Military Seize the Law”: The Drafting of the 1961 Constitution, Nicolas Camelio7. Institutional Cooperation and Substitution: the Ottoman Police and Justice System at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Noémi Lévy Aksu8. The State without the Public: Some Conjectures about the Administration for Collective Housing (TOKİ), Jean-François Pérouse9. Heritage as a Category of Public Policy in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, Muriel Girard, Clémence Scalbert Yücel10. European Policies to Support “Civil Society”: Embodying a Form of Public Action, Claire Visier11. The Incomplete Civil Servant? The Figure of the Neighbourhood Headman (Muhtar), Élise Massicard12. Military Domination by Donations, Anouck Gabriela Corte-Real Pinto13. Women’s Shelters as State Institutions, Berna Ekal14. The Socialisation of Those Called up for “Training in the Love of the Motherland” as Part of Military Service in Turkey, Sümbül Kaya15. Officialdom and the Woman Who Was 'Meant to Be Dead': The Ethnography of an Exfoliation, Benoît Fliche16. Deceptive Agency, Marc AymesBibliographyIndex

Marc Aymes, PhD (2005), Aix-Marseille 1 University, is a permanent research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. His works focus on Mediterranean provincials and forging Ottomans. He currently serves as an editor of the European Journal of Turkish Studies and of the journal Labyrinthe: Atelier interdisciplinaire. His most recent publications include A Provincial History of the Ottoman Empire: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2014).Benjamin Gourisse, PhD (2010) Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris), is an associate professor of political science at Paris-Dauphine University. He is the autor of La Violence politique en Turquie, l’État en jeu (1975-1980) (Karthala, 2014). Élise Massicard, PhD (2002), Institut d’Études Politiques (Paris), is a permanent research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Her works focus on the political sociology of contemporary Turkey. She has authored The Alevis in Turkey and Europe (Routledge, 2012) and co-edited Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party (Routledge, 2013).

“This book is not only a substantial contribution to the study of the Turkish State in particular, but also a valuable volume for State studies in general.”Dilek Yankaya in ERIS Vol. 5, Issue 2/2018, 66–70https://budrich-journals.de/index.php/eris/article/view/32807

• List of Tables and FiguresList of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroductory Note1. Order and Compromise: The Concrete Realities of Public Action in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, Benjamin Gourisse2. Defective Agency, Marc Aymes3. Is it Time to Stop Speaking about Ottoman Modernisation?, Olivier Bouquet4. The Linguist and the Politician: The Türk Dil Kurumu and the Field of Power in the 1930-40s, Emmanuel Szurek5. An Imposed or a Negotiated Laiklik? The Administration of the Teaching of Islam in Single-Party Turkey, Nathalie Clayer6. “The Military Seize the Law”: The Drafting of the 1961 Constitution, Nicolas Camelio7. Institutional Cooperation and Substitution: the Ottoman Police and Justice System at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Noémi Lévy Aksu8. The State without the Public: Some Conjectures about the Administration for Collective Housing (TOKİ), Jean-François Pérouse9. Heritage as a Category of Public Policy in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, Muriel Girard, Clémence Scalbert Yücel10. European Policies to Support “Civil Society”: Embodying a Form of Public Action, Claire Visier11. The Incomplete Civil Servant? The Figure of the Neighbourhood Headman (Muhtar), Élise Massicard12. Military Domination by Donations, Anouck Gabriela Corte-Real Pinto13. Women’s Shelters as State Institutions, Berna Ekal14. The Socialisation of Those Called up for “Training in the Love of the Motherland” as Part of Military Service in Turkey, Sümbül Kaya15. Officialdom and the Woman Who Was 'Meant to Be Dead': The Ethnography of an Exfoliation, Benoît Fliche16. Deceptive Agency, Marc AymesBibliographyIndex

Marc Aymes, PhD (2005), Aix-Marseille 1 University, is a permanent research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. His works focus on Mediterranean provincials and forging Ottomans. He currently serves as an editor of the European Journal of Turkish Studies and of the journal Labyrinthe: Atelier interdisciplinaire. His most recent publications include A Provincial History of the Ottoman Empire: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2014).Benjamin Gourisse, PhD (2010) Pantheon-Sorbonne University (Paris), is an associate professor of political science at Paris-Dauphine University. He is the autor of La Violence politique en Turquie, l’État en jeu (1975-1980) (Karthala, 2014). Élise Massicard, PhD (2002), Institut d’Études Politiques (Paris), is a permanent research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Her works focus on the political sociology of contemporary Turkey. She has authored The Alevis in Turkey and Europe (Routledge, 2012) and co-edited Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party (Routledge, 2013).

“This book is not only a substantial contribution to the study of the Turkish State in particular, but also a valuable volume for State studies in general.”Dilek Yankaya in ERIS Vol. 5, Issue 2/2018, 66–70https://budrich-journals.de/index.php/eris/article/view/32807

• List of Tables and FiguresList of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroductory Note1. Order and Compromise: The Concrete Realities of Public Action in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, Benjamin Gourisse2. Defective Agency, Marc Aymes3. Is it Time to Stop Speaking about Ottoman Modernisation?, Olivier Bouquet4. The Linguist and the Politician: The Türk Dil Kurumu and the Field of Power in the 1930-40s, Emmanuel Szurek5. An Imposed or a Negotiated Laiklik? The Administration of the Teaching of Islam in Single-Party Turkey, Nathalie Clayer6. “The Military Seize the Law”: The Drafting of the 1961 Constitution, Nicolas Camelio7. Institutional Cooperation and Substitution: the Ottoman Police and Justice System at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Noémi Lévy Aksu8. The State without the Public: Some Conjectures about the Administration for Collective Housing (TOKİ), Jean-François Pérouse9. Heritage as a Category of Public Policy in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, Muriel Girard, Clémence Scalbert Yücel10. European Policies to Support “Civil Society”: Embodying a Form of Public Action, Claire Visier11. The Incomplete Civil Servant? The Figure of the Neighbourhood Headman (Muhtar), Élise Massicard12. Military Domination by Donations, Anouck Gabriela Corte-Real Pinto13. Women’s Shelters as State Institutions, Berna Ekal14. The Socialisation of Those Called up for “Training in the Love of the Motherland” as Part of Military Service in Turkey, Sümbül Kaya15. Officialdom and the Woman Who Was 'Meant to Be Dead': The Ethnography of an Exfoliation, Benoît Fliche16. Deceptive Agency, Marc AymesBibliographyIndex