Culture and Society in Modern Turkey: Conference Proceedings The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies These are the proceedings of a conference held in May 2006 on Culture and Society in Modern Turkey at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University, in the framework of the Centre's Suleyman Demirel Program for Contemporary Turkish Studies. Bringing together a select group of scholars mainly from Turkey, but also from the United States and Israel, the conference was the second dedicated to the memory of our dear friend and colleague, Professor Aryeh Shmuelevitz, who passed away in January 2005. The conference dealt with cultural development in the Turkish Republic with special reference to literature, the media and popular culture, music and cinema. A recurring theme in all the presentations was the remarkably striking interrelationship between culture and politics, whether in regard to the efforts of the Kemalist Republic to shape a new modern Turkish culture, detached from its Ottoman heritage, or the impact of domestic political liberalization after the Second World War on all forms of cultural expression, from literature to the cinema and form television to Pop music.[…]