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How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk: Provincial Newspapers and the Negotiation of a Muslim National Identity

ISBN: 9780292723597 ;ISBN: 0292723598 ;EISBN: 0292734913 ;EISBN: 9780292734913 ;DOI: 10.7560/723597 ;OCLC: 741751271

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Title:
How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk: Provincial Newspapers and the Negotiation of a Muslim National Identity
Author: Brockett, Gavin D
Subjects: Atatürk, Kemal,-1881-1938-Political and social views ; HISTORY ; Identification (Religion)-Political aspects-Turkey-History-20th century ; Journalism ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Mass media-Political aspects-Turkey-History-20th century ; Mass media-Social aspects-Turkey-History-20th century ; Middle East ; Muslims-Turkey-History-20th century ; Nationalism-Turkey-History-20th century ; Printing-Political aspects-Turkey-History-20th century ; Printing-Social aspects-Turkey-History-20th century ; Turkey & Ottoman Empire ; Turkey-Politics and government-1918-1960 ; Turkish newspapers-History-20th century
Description: The modern nation-state of Turkey was established in 1923, but when and how did its citizens begin to identify themselves as Turks? Mustafa Kemal Atatrk, Turkeys founding president, is almost universally credited with creating a Turkish national identity through his revolutionary program to secularize the former heartland of the Ottoman Empire. Yet, despite Turkeys status as the lone secular state in the Muslim Middle East, religion remains a powerful force in Turkish society, and the country today is governed by a democratically elected political party with a distinctly religious (Islamist) orientation. In this history, Gavin D. Brockett takes a fresh look at the formation of Turkish national identity, focusing on the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the process through which a religious national identity emerged. Challenging the orthodoxy that Atatrk and the political elite imposed a sense of national identity from the top down, Brockett examines the social and political debates in provincial newspapers from around the country. He shows that the unprecedented expansion of print media in Turkey between 1945 and 1954, which followed the end of strict, single-party authoritarian government, created a forum in which ordinary people could inject popular religious identities into the new Turkish nationalism. Brockett makes a convincing case that it was this fruitful negotiation between secular nationalism and Islamrather than the imposition of secularism alonethat created the modern Turkish national identity.
Related Titles: CMES Modern Middle East Series
Publisher: Austin: University of Texas Press
Creation Date: 2011
Format: 311
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9780292723597
ISBN: 0292723598
EISBN: 0292734913
EISBN: 9780292734913
DOI: 10.7560/723597
OCLC: 741751271
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk: Provincial Newspapers and the Negotiation of a Muslim National Identity

ISBN: 9780292723597 ;ISBN: 0292723598 ;EISBN: 0292734913 ;EISBN: 9780292734913 ;DOI: 10.7560/723597 ;OCLC: 741751271

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