Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. A Midsummer Night’s Coup: Performance and Power in Turkey’s 15 July Coup Attempt.- 3. Contending Sacrifices: Discontent of Military Veterans of the Kurdish Conflict for Civilian Veterans of 15 July.- 4. Hegemonic Masculinity in Times of Crisis: 15 July Coup Attempt and the Turkish Football.- 5. The Secular Army or the New Ottoman Fantasy?: Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity in the Image of İstanbul.- 6. Press Start to Remember the Martyrs: On Video Games Commemorating the 2016 Coup Attempt in Turkey.- 7. The Undead Father: the “Epic” of 15 July as a Gothic Story.- 8. Insidious Trauma and Traumatized Masculinities in Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-Haired Woman.- 9. Return to the Status Quo Ante: Reloading Militarism Before and After 15 July Coup Attempt.

About the Author

Feride Çiçekoğlu received her PhD in architecture from University of Pennsylvania. She started teaching in Turkey but she was imprisoned during the military junta of 1980 because of her political opposition. She is a professor at İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of Film and Television.
Ömer Turan received his PhD from Central European University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. He is an associate professor at İstanbul Bilgi University, Department of International Relations.