During the 19th century, British diplomacy towards the Ottoman Empire was based on rejuvenating and revitalising the administration system with a series of social and political reforms. Although British attitudes began to transform during the Near Eastern Crisis of 1876-8 and the Anglo-Ottoman alliance was interrupted, the policy changed dramatically on the eve of the First World War.Nonetheless, major events such as the Chanak Crisis in the British Cabinet, the occupation of Constantinople and Smyrna and finally the Turkish Nationalist Movementunder the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk effected the dynamics of Anglo-Ottoman relations. This book examines the ground of these policies and analyses how thisstorm was over in British foreign policies towards Turkey between 1918 and 1923.

II. Meşrutiyet (1908-1918) ve dönemin temel aktörü Osmanlı İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti Cumhuriyet’e geçişte pek çok siyasi kurum, örgüt ve deneyim için bir laboratuar sağlamıştı. Modern siyasi kurumlar, çok partili hayat ve hatta etnik unsurlar arası birliği sürdürme denemeleri bu dönemde uygulamaya kondu. Siyasi kurum ve kadrolar, sağ-sol yönelimlerin sınırları, milliyetçilikteki dışlayıcı çizgilerin temel doğrultusu o dönemde belirginleşti. Bu deneyim olumlu ve olumsuz sonuçları ile Cumhuriyet’e aktarıldı.

Erken Cumhuriyet ile kastedilen 1923-50 arası yıllar, Cumhuriyet’in kurucusu Atatürk ile sonrası Milli Şef dönemlerine ayrılabilir. Aynı dönemi ülke içi siyaset ve dünya ile ilişkileri çok etkilediği için, 1929 krizi ile de ayırmak ve II. Dünya Savaşı sonuna kadar uzatmak mümkün görünüyor.

Mete Çetik’in çeşitli özgün yazı ve kitap eleştirilerinin derlendiği bu kitapta, II. Meşrutiyet döneminin genel siyasi ortamı, Makedon hareketi liderleri, İttihatçıların siyasi tiyatro etkinlikleri gibi başlıklar konu edilerek, farklı açılardan ele alınmaya çalışılıyor.

Erken Cumhuriyet dönemi üzerine ise, genel siyasi ortam, milliyetçilik, ırkçılık, Soğuk Savaş, üniversite tasfiyeleri ve Atatürk’ü konu eden özgün yazı ve kitap eleştirileri yer alıyor.

The determinants of local government performance have long been of interest, and have been empirically investigated in a number of recent studies. A general question in this area is: why have some local governments across the countries achieved high rates of performance whilst the others remained at lower levels? Evidence from the relevant literature indicates that some local governments or municipalities, particularly in developed countries, achieve very good performance. Others, in particular those from underdeveloped or developing, have very little or almost no performance.

This research empirically investigates the budgeting conditions in North Cyprus and evaluate how budgeting conditions vary from one municipality to the other in the five major municipalities; Lefkosa, Magusa, Girne, Guzelyurt and Iskele over the period 2004Q1 to 2012Q4. Two types of methodologies are conducted. First; it empirically investigates the determinants of local government deficit by using cointegration techniques. The Johansen co-integration and The Vector Error Correction model (VECM) are applied to test the effect of each element such as own-source revenue, grants, expenditures and debt services on the budget deficit. Second, the study test the convergence hypothesis if similar regions within the country converge to the same long-run steady state by considering five major Cypriot municipalities in the North Cyprus economy.

The results from the empirical analysis on budget deficit findings show that there is evidence of a long-run relationship between general deficit and its determinants. The evidence of causality is found from expenditure and debt to general deficit for Lefkosa municipality. There is unidirectional causality from grant and revenue through deficit for Magusa municipality. Third empirical analysis on convergence introduced that the municipalities with the lowest number of people per staff, commonly diverge from the group mean.