The Balkan Wars and the rise of the reactionary modernist utopia in young Turk thought and the journal Turk Yurdu [Turkish Homeland]

Kurt U., Gürpınar D.

NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, cilt.21, sa.2, ss.348-368, 2015 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 21 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/nana.12103
  • Dergi Adı: NATIONS AND NATIONALISM
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.348-368
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.