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Contextualising ‘Turkification’: nation‐building in the late Ottoman Empire, 1908–18*
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This article offers an analytical framework for understanding the peculiarities of the Ottoman Empire's nationality policies in the second constitutional period (1908–18). It will examine the extent to which the nationality policies of the Young Turks can be perceived as a nation‐building project, and question whether it is reasonable to apply the term ‘Turkification’ to these policies. The primary goal of the paper in this context is to identify how and to what degree a nationalist outlook shaped imperial polices of the late Ottoman Empire. Engaging in a critical dialogue with the existing historiography, the article argues that ‘Turkification’ should be conceptualised solely as a project of nation‐building in the multiethnic Ottoman Empire. It was only one of the policies employed by the imperial elite and it coexisted with other imperial policies ranging from centralisation to decentralisation, assimilation to dissimilation and integration to homogenisation. The paper concludes by contending that only by contextualising and understanding this complexity and only by taking geographical variations into account can the peculiarity of ‘Turkification’ be grasped.
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“One of the goals of the settlement policies was to promote the assimilation of immigrant communities into Turkish culture on the one hand, and not to allow the clustering of the same ethnic group in the same region on the other (Ülker 2005: 626-629).”
From Assimilation of the Muslim communities in the first decade of the Turkish Republic (1923-1934): Originally published in 2008 (2023) · cites this paper as Ülker 2005
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“Making an extensive use of Dündar’s work, I have also discussed elsewhere that the different ethnic and linguistic groups were subject to different settlement policies after the Balkan Wars (Ülker 2005).”
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Ülker, E. (2023) · European journal of Turkish studies · doi:10.4000/ejts.822 · Cited by 57
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- Authors
- Ülker, E.
- Affiliations
- Istanbul Bilgi University (TR)
- Corresponding author
- Ülker, Erol
- ORCID
- Ülker, Erol
- Venue
- Nations and Nationalism
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2005-09-27
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 613-636
- ISSN
- 1345-5078 (ISSN-L)
- 1354-5078
- 1469-8129
- OpenAlex
- W2113549798
- Cited by
- 74
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 11.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nations and Nationalism (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Historical Turkish Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Ottoman Empire History and Society
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Balkans: History, Politics, Society
- Keywords
- Turkification, nation-building, ethnic policy, Young Turks, late Ottoman Empire, Ottoman nationalism, multiethnic empire, centralization and decentralization, imperial elites
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