Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak
Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak is a Turkey expert at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (MDC) at Tel Aviv University and the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS). He received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University’s School of History and is a lecturer there, as well as at Shalem College.
Dr. Cohen Yanarocak is the editor of Turkeyscope: Insights on Turkish Affairs. In May 2015, he was awarded the Dan David Prize Scholarship in the category of “Past: Retrieving the Past, Historians and Their Sources.”
He is the author of The Evolution of the Turkish School Textbooks from Atatürk to Erdoğan, published by Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, in September 2022.
Selected Publications
Book
The Evolution of the Turkish School Textbooks from Ataturk to Erdogan (London, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Book Chapters
"In the Footsteps of my Childhood Dream," in Rıfat Bali (Ed.), This is My New Homeland Life Stories of Turkish Jewish Immigrants" (Istanbul, Libra, 2016)
"’Kitapların kızı'nın"’ Hikayesi: İda (Sason) Sarfetti," in Rıfat Bali (Ed.), Meçhul Yahudiler Ansiklopedisi (Istanbul, Libra, 2016)
"Harcanmış bir vatan şairinin hikayesi: Siyon Kohen Yanarocak", in Rıfat Bali (Ed.) Meçhul Yahudiler Ansiklopedisi (Istanbul, Libra, 2016)
“A Tale of Political Consciousness: The Rise of a Nonviolent Kurdish Political Movement in Turkey,” in Ofra Bengio (Ed.), Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland (Austin, Texas University Press, 2014), pp. 137-154
“Gezi Park: From ‘Father State’ to Custodianship,” in Brandon Friedman and Bruce Maddy Weitzman (Eds.), Inglorious Revolutions: State Cohesion in the Middle East after the Arab Spring (Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University Press, 2014) pp. 327-337
Academic Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“The Role of the Official Ceremonies and Hidden Curriculum on Atatürkism's Socialization and Indoctrination in Turkish Schools (1980-2002),” Journal of Turkish Studies (Taylor & Francis), 25:5 (2024), pp. 937–961. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2024.2374327
“The Portrayal of Jews and Israel in Turkish School Textbooks,” The Journal of the Middle East and Africa (2019). DOI:10.1080/21520844.2019.1585702
“Turkish Staatsvolk vs. Kurdish Identity: Denial of the Kurds in the Turkish School Textbooks,” Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 7:4 (2016), pp. 405-419. DOI: 10.1080/21520844.2016.1239176
“Casting Off the Shackles of Libya’s Arab-Middle Eastern Foreign Policy: A Unique Case of Rapprochement with non-Arab Turkey (1970s–2011),” The Journal of North African Studies (Routledge – Taylor & Francis) (October 2012). Co-authored with Yehudit Ronen
“Atatürk & Erdoğan: Islam's Impact on Turkish Nationalism,” International Review of Turkish Studies (July 2011)