2019, volume 1
THE OTTOMAN “OTHER”: (RE)FRAMING THE PAST OF THE MODERN TURKISH NATION
Iulia Oprea, PhD., Fellow, Turkey Europe Future Forum, Essen, Germany
Abstract
The paper examines the process of the Turkish nation building process starting from the premises that whether we talk about culture, religion, ethnicity, language, traditions or other elements nations identify with and take pride in, continuity in time is an essential requirement to legitimize the bases of national identity in the nationalist discourse.
Keywords: The Ottomans; Turkish nation; identity; the Kemalists; the nation building process
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amsh-2020-0006
Pages: 95-104
10.2478/amsh-2020-0006