NATIONALISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN TURKEY : MANIFESTATION OF TURKISM AND TURKISH NATIONAL IDENTITY DURING THE NATION-STATE BUILDING PERIOD

This article aims to demonstrate the emergence of Turkish nationalism within the historical period from Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. In this direction, beginning from the process of modernization of Ottoman Empire as to be known the existence of nationalism in Turkey and the shaping for...

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Autor principal: Emre YILDIRIM
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Publicado: Fırat University 2019
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Sumario:This article aims to demonstrate the emergence of Turkish nationalism within the historical period from Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. In this direction, beginning from the process of modernization of Ottoman Empire as to be known the existence of nationalism in Turkey and the shaping form and playing role of nationalism in this process, rise of Turkish nationalism was focused. In this contex, at the beginning, the wars and the undergoing population mobility like the waves of migration during the late Ottoman Empire was revealed for a proper analysis of Turkish nationalism. After, during the social transformation within the modernization period, especially political and cultural developments such as the institutional changes and educational reforms adopted to Western culture and the emergence of nationalist discourse inside the intellectual circles were mentioned. Sequentially, the final developments such as state-led national identification process during the nation-building period, acquisition of patriotic awareness through the citizenship education and implementing of Turkism in the cultural field beginning with the populist idea were discussed. The thesis of this article is that for a righteous analysis of Turkish nationalism gained ground as the main phenomenon of nationalist form of Turkey, all the developments mentioned above has to be evaluated en bloc.