Anarchism in Turkey

In the same period, Turkish Cypriot Kıbrıslızade Osman Bey's French work Socialisme et Anarchisme (1895) became the first anarchist book published in the Ottomans.

[3] There is an ongoing debate on why anarchism has not gained visibility as an alternative leftist policy in the first half of the Republican period.

[4][3][5] In the 1970s, while Marxist approaches dominated the leftist perspective, interest in anarchism remained pale in left-wing publishing.

While articles on anarchism were featured in the Yeni Ufuklar magazine published in the 1960s, Proudhon's book What Is Property?

Kara was published at a time when the mainstream Turkish left could not overcome the shock of the 1980 military coup d'état, defined itself as "libertarian" instead of "anarchist", due to the general perception of anarchy as chaos.