The Balkan Wars and the rise of the reactionary modernist utopia in young Turk thought and the journal Türk Yurdu [Turkish Homeland] |
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| Authors: | Ümİt Kurt Doğan Gürpınar |
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| Institution: | 1. History Department, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA and Department of Political Science, Zirve University, GAZ?ANTEP, Turkey;2. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | The article examines the rise of the ‘reactionary modernist’ project that developed after the devastating defeat of the Balkan Wars and which was promoted by the Young Turks by means of articles published in Turkish Homeland, the intellectual platform of the Young Turks. The article argues that the outlines of this project to a large extent shaped the contours of Turkish nationalism then, and that they have hence been constitutive of Turkish nationalism ever since. |
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| Keywords: | Balkan Wars reactionary modernism the myth of national revival Turkish Homeland Turkish nationalism |
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