This book examines the modernist nation-building processes in post-Ottoman Turkey through a perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Drawing on archival evidence and oral interviews, the author asks how the refor…
Tanil Bora discusses "currents" under the following headings: late Ottoman mindset world, westernism, Kemalism, nationalism, Turkism and criticism, conservatism, Islamism, liberalism, left, feminism and Kurdish political movement. It does not just focus on certain texts, but als…
Analyzes the nature and content of Kemalist ideology in Turkey during the last 20 years including its close relationship to social democracy and neo-nationalism, its implied liberal philosophy of history, and its idea about human nature, to explain its endurance and relevancy to…
The nature and content of Kemalist ideology in Turkey during the last twenty years is analysed in this book. In order to place the current manifestations of this Turkish official modernising ideology in the two-part context of globalisation and the re-sacralisation of the world,…
The narrative of 'The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building' is that of the essential continuity of the late Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923. Erik Jan Zürcher shows that Kemal's 'ideological toolkit' contained many values shared by other young…
The grand narrative of "The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building" is that of the essential continuity of the late Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923. Erik J. Zurcher shows that Kemal's 'ideological toolkit', which included positivism, militarism…
