Abstract
Turkey’s radical transformation of state and society under 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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 339-357 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Journal of the Middle East and Africa |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2 Oct 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Funding
The author was a recipient of a 2017 ASMEA Research Grant and ITU BAP Project Code [SGA-2017-40628].
| Funders | Funder number |
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| ITU BAP | SGA-2017-40628 |
Keywords
- Justice and development party
- New Turkey
- Ottoman legacy
- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
- Turkish identity