Egemen Bezci

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Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War: The Turkish Secret Service, the US and the UK

Egemen Bezci

I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury Publishing · ISBN 978-1-78831-325-4

An archival study of intelligence cooperation among Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom during the early Cold War. The book examines how a weaker ally used intelligence liaison, technical cooperation and covert action to pursue interests that did not always coincide with those of its Western partners.

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Translated edition

Türk İstihbaratı ve Soğuk Savaş: ABD ve İngiltere Arasında Türk Gizli Servisi

Kronik Kitap, · In Turkish · ISBN 978-625-6989-22-1

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Reviews and reception

Scholarly and professional reviews

  1. Hayden Peake, ‘Intelligence Officer’s Bookshelf—March 2020’, Studies in Intelligence, vol. 64, no. 1, March 2020. Published by the CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence.

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  2. Şevki Kıralp, Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 684–686.

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  3. Thomas Riegler, sehepunkte, vol. 21, no. 9, 15 September 2021.

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  4. Stéphane Lefebvre, Intelligence and National Security, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1086–1087.

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  5. Margaux Sciandra, Études françaises de renseignement et de cyber, vol. 2023/1, no. 1, pp. 263–268.

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Public reviews

  1. Luke Frostick, ‘Turkish intelligence and the Cold War’, Duvar English, .

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  2. Usman Butt, ‘Strange bedfellows: How Turkish intelligence influenced the Western alliance during the Cold War’, The New Arab, .

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Book chapters

  1. Turkish Covert Operations: A Useful Tool for Politicians?

    Nihat Ali Özcan, Egemen Bezci

    In Covert Action: National Approaches to Unacknowledged Intervention. Georgetown University Press

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  2. Turkish Intelligence, Surveillance and the Secrets of the Cold War: Blocked Modernisation?

    Egemen Bezci

    In Intelligence Agencies, Technology and Knowledge Production, pp. 164–183. Routledge

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  3. Ankara: Rabbit-Warren of Spies

    Egemen Bezci

    In Neutral Countries as Clandestine Battlegrounds, 1939–1968: Between Two Fires, pp. 193–208. Lexington Books

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  4. Turkish Diplomatic Security: Lessons Not Learned

    Egemen B. Bezci

    In Diplomatic Security: A Comparative Analysis, pp. 164–179. Stanford University Press

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Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. Seeking Shelter in the Anthropocene: Challenges and Opportunities for Taiwan

    Egemen Bezci

    The Pacific Review, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 177–202

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  2. Small State Intelligence: New Zealand in SEATO Security Affairs

    İ. Aytaç Kadıoğlu, Egemen B. Bezci

    Pacific Focus, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 5–28

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  3. The Mystery of Intra-Alliance Intelligence: Turkey’s Covert Operations in the Cyprus Conflict

    İ. Aytaç Kadıoğlu, Egemen Bezci

    Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 638–652

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  4. Use of Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Agriculture: A Preliminary Analysis

    Egemen Bezci

    Journal of AI Humanities, vol. 4, pp. 51–79

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  6. Anatomy of the Turkish Emergency State: A Continuous Reflection of Turkish Raison d’état between 1980 and 2002

    Egemen B. Bezci, Güven Gürkan Öztan

    Middle East Critique, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 163–179

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  7. Turkey’s Intelligence Diplomacy during the Second World War

    Egemen Bezci

    Journal of Intelligence History, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 80–95

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  8. Do the Kurds Have ‘No Friends but the Mountains’? Turkey’s Secret War against Communists, Soviets and the Kurds

    Chikara Hashimoto, Egemen B. Bezci

    Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 640–655

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  9. Türkiye’de Olağanüstü Hal: Devlet Aklı, Askerler ve Siviller

    Güven Gürkan Öztan, Egemen B. Bezci

    Mülkiye Dergisi, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 159–186 · In Turkish

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  10. The Return of President Putin and Russian–Turkish Relations: Where Are They Headed?

    James W. Warhola, Egemen B. Bezci

    SAGE Open, vol. 3, no. 3

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  11. Religion and State in Contemporary Turkey: Recent Developments in Laiklik

    James W. Warhola, Egemen B. Bezci

    Journal of Church and State, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 427–453

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Policy writing and public commentary

  2. Trump’s Disregard for Climate Change Is Only Natural

    Amar Causevic, Egemen Bezci, Nicholas Borroz

    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,

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  6. The Renewed Turkey–PKK Conflict Has Shattered the Illusion That Kurds Can Participate Legitimately in Turkey’s Political System

    Egemen Bezci, Nicholas Borroz

    LSE European Politics and Policy,

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Editorial and review essays

  1. The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

    Egemen Bezci

    Book review, Intelligence and National Security, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 743–745

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  2. Guest Editor’s Introduction: Trajectory for Kurds

    Egemen B. Bezci

    Editorial introduction, Middle East Critique, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 1–6

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  3. Book Review: Linda Risso, Propaganda and Intelligence in the Cold War: The NATO Information Service

    Egemen B. Bezci

    Political Studies Review, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 438–439

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  4. Book Review: SMERSH: Stalin’s Secret Weapon

    Egemen B. Bezci

    Political Studies Review, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 121–122

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  5. Militarist State Discourse in Turkey, 1960–1983

    Egemen B. Bezci

    Book review, Politics, Religion & Ideology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 625–626

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Other research output

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