Umut Uzer
Author of the books An Intellectual History of Turkish nationalism and Identity and Turkish foreign policy, as well as numerous articles on Turkish foreign policy, Israeli-Turkish relations, the perception of Palestine in Turkey and neo-Ottomanism.
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some Kurdish militants of the Turkish socialist movement from
the late 1960s until the early 1980s based on the memoirs of the
protagonists. In these writings, we can observe the exuberance as
well as the disappointments of these young militants and their
approach to world affairs in general and Turkish and Middle
Eastern politics in particular. In their worldview, America and its
allies, especially Israel, were the real enemy whereas they purported
to aspire to the creation of a socialist state in Turkey. The
Turkish left-wing militants got involved in Palestinian politics
through their training at the Palestinian camps in Lebanon,
Syria, and Jordan as they perceived the Palestinian struggle
against Israel as a part of the world-wide revolutionary movement
for the overthrow of imperialism and its replacement by socialist
governments all around the globe.
during the last ten years, with relations between the former partners characterised
by antagonism and total lack of trust that make a genuine reconciliation
rather inconceivable despite the existence of weighty common military and
economic interests. This article examines the origins of the bilateral relations,
the main causes of its decline, and the prospects for a future thaw.
Development Party (AKP) government. The AKP leadership has been articulating a new identity and historical perspective to create a new national identity for Turkey. This article analyzes the nostalgia for the Ottoman Empire in Turkish politics by focusing on the conservative ideologue Necip Fazıl Kısakurek (1904–1983), who had a significant impact on the AKP leadership as well as on efforts to create a new post-Kemalist Turkey.
some Kurdish militants of the Turkish socialist movement from
the late 1960s until the early 1980s based on the memoirs of the
protagonists. In these writings, we can observe the exuberance as
well as the disappointments of these young militants and their
approach to world affairs in general and Turkish and Middle
Eastern politics in particular. In their worldview, America and its
allies, especially Israel, were the real enemy whereas they purported
to aspire to the creation of a socialist state in Turkey. The
Turkish left-wing militants got involved in Palestinian politics
through their training at the Palestinian camps in Lebanon,
Syria, and Jordan as they perceived the Palestinian struggle
against Israel as a part of the world-wide revolutionary movement
for the overthrow of imperialism and its replacement by socialist
governments all around the globe.
during the last ten years, with relations between the former partners characterised
by antagonism and total lack of trust that make a genuine reconciliation
rather inconceivable despite the existence of weighty common military and
economic interests. This article examines the origins of the bilateral relations,
the main causes of its decline, and the prospects for a future thaw.
Development Party (AKP) government. The AKP leadership has been articulating a new identity and historical perspective to create a new national identity for Turkey. This article analyzes the nostalgia for the Ottoman Empire in Turkish politics by focusing on the conservative ideologue Necip Fazıl Kısakurek (1904–1983), who had a significant impact on the AKP leadership as well as on efforts to create a new post-Kemalist Turkey.
nationalism disseminating his ideas through his activism and his literature by invoking
Turkish history. In the journal Young Pens, published in Ottoman Salonica
between 1910–1912, Seyfetttin together with Ziya Gökalp laid the foundations of
Turkish nationalist thought as well as national policies toward the Turkish
language. While Gökalp developed a more systematic ideology of Turkism with
his writings, Seyfettin appealed to the sentiments of the Turkish people with his
short plays arguing that Turkish nationalism was the only viable option for the
Turkish speaking people of the Balkans and Anatolia. A literary figure as well as
an ideologue, Seyfettin’s ideas against Ottomanism and Islamism were clearly
expressed in his plays and articles focusing on Ottoman Turks, their heroism and
their betrayal by the subject peoples living under the Ottoman state. Consequently,
nationalism was the only natural solution to the plight of the Turks and for the prospects
of their salvation against imperial encroachments and minority separatist
movements. His literary production, however, had strong nationalist tones
making ideological considerations to be more important than any intention to
produce belles-lettres. Seyfettin’s influence can be observed as his plays are still
included in the curriculum of Turkish primary and secondary education as
devised by the Ministry of National Education in Turkey.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s republican rule (1923–1938) has
been subject to a gradual revision under the Justice and
Development Party (AKP) government since 2002. The creation
of a new state identity has been buttressed with Islamic and
Ottoman discourses, which entail a reinterpretation of
Ottoman history. This study analyzes the changes in modern
Turkey in the last sixteen years within the context of the use of
the Ottoman past in the formation of a new national identity
by the AKP government.
governments. However, as the party solidified its power, a more assertive and active policy, very much emanating from the leadership’s understanding of history and self-definition, was implemented. Consequently, a country with leadership ambitions in its region and beyond has emerged, which became manifested in the slogan: “The world is greater than five.”