... Turkey's traditional one, Kemalism. It is argued that the AKP aims to replace Kemalism to reconstruct the imagined Turkish community anew. It is further argued that collective memory is central to AKP discourses and repertoires in the party's attempt to construct stabilized, sedimented, dominant...

...Ihsan Yilmaz Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) governments have managed to remove Kemalism only to replace it with an Islamist nation-building and social-engineering project that is as, if not more, authoritarian, conservative, and regressive than the Kemalist one. The Turkish education...

... proponent of twentieth-century secular modernism in the Mediterranean region, Ataturk, aka Mustafa Kemal. The author of this book, Edward Hale Bierstadt, was neither Greek nor Armenian but the executive secretary of the Emergency Committee of Near East Refugees as well as an author, drama critic...

..., Ataturk, aka Mustafa Kemal. The author of this book, Edward Hale Bierstadt, was neither Greek nor Armenian but the executive secretary of the Emergency Committee of Near East Refugees as well as an author, drama critic, and criminologist living in New York City. The emergency Robert J. Pranger...

... the past one hundred years, encompassing the three crucial periods of twentieth-­century Turkish history: (1) the twilight years of the Ottoman era in the early century, (2) the period of high Kemalism (1928 – 1938), and (3) the period of multiparty democracy after 1950.6 While analyzing...

... to Cizre, the power and privileges of the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) stem from three basic sources: 1. Kemalism 2. The TAF’s role in defining what constitutes security and other threats to the nation, which serves to promote its own legacy and perpetuate its veto power 3...

... and the European Union in order to effectively contend with rival Iranian and Saudi Arabian blocs. 96  Mediterranean Quarterly: September 2015 Individual Level of Analysis: From Kemalism to Erdoganism Kemalism is the founding ideology of the Turkish Republic, named after the first president, Mustafa...

...Robert J. Pranger Kemal H. Karpat: The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State . New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 533 pages. ISBN 0-19-513618-7.$50.00. Robert J. Pranger is a private consultant specializing...

... an EU member. Intellectuals are dragged before courts for such incomprehensible crimes as “offending Turkism” or the personality of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk or for wearing the wrong head gear. Time and again, prominent literary figures, among them the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, were accused...

... Pamuk, Osmanlı Ekonomisi ve Dunya Kapitalizmi: 1820 – 1913 [The Ottoman Economy and World Capitalism: 1820 – 1913] (Ankara: Yurt Yayınları, 1984). 25. Bilsay Kuruc, Mustafa Kemal Doneminde Ekonomi [The Economy during the Term of Mustafa Kemal] (Ankara: Bilgi Yayınevi, 1987), 21 – 3. 62...

..., a mostly Asian country. It is pos- sible for one to think of Europe without invoking names like those of Mustafa Kemal, Izmet Inonu, or Nazim Hikmet, but it is totally impossible to think of Europe as an entity without names like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Tchai- kovsky, Rachmaninov, Scriabin...

... solution to the Kurdish problem, by the end of his life he had evolved to become the only important Turkish states- 12. Kemal Kirisci and Gareth M. Winrow, The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-State Ethnic Confl ict (London: Frank Cass, 1997), 130. 82 Mediterranean Quarterly...

... a significant role in the preservation of Westernization processes that aimed directly at protecting the republic’s secular regime and the homogeneity of Turkish society as all- Muslim, all-secular, all-Turk visvis their racial/ethnic identity as a nation. This process gave way to the rise of Kemalism...

..., and Greece, among others). Soon thereafter, Turkish nationalists led by Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) rejected not only the defeated Ottoman sultan’s rule but also certain provisions of the Treaty of Sèvres that they felt violated the territorial integrity of the soon to be created Republic of Turkey...

..., and Kemalism. Conse- quently, this shift away from one durable image framing to an opposing one also revoked secularism’s monopoly on the framing of Turkish nationalist identity. Literature Review: Images and Nationalism Image Framing As Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones argue, trends...

... of expression. Invariably, this unique and parochial interpretation of secularism is justifi ed as a form of what the Turks refer to as Kemalism. Pamuk does not refer to Kemalist ideology overtly, but nonetheless he delineates its traits in his characters. Kemalism requires adherence to the personality...

... of expression. Invariably, this unique and parochial interpretation of secularism is justifi ed as a form of what the Turks refer to as Kemalism. Pamuk does not refer to Kemalist ideology overtly, but nonetheless he delineates its traits in his characters. Kemalism requires adherence to the personality...

... of expression. Invariably, this unique and parochial interpretation of secularism is justifi ed as a form of what the Turks refer to as Kemalism. Pamuk does not refer to Kemalist ideology overtly, but nonetheless he delineates its traits in his characters. Kemalism requires adherence to the personality...

...Hayat Alvi Ali Carkoglu, Mine Eder, and Kemal Kirisci: The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East. New York: Routledge, 1998. 232 pages. ISBN 0-415-19445-8. $100. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2000 Hayat Alvi is a doctoral candidate in political science...

... is a challenge to the fundamentally anti-­Ottoman stance of Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. In light of contemporary politics, the story of Ottoman history in Republican Turkey has sometimes appeared as little more than a battleground between pro-­Ottoman Islamists and anti-­Ottoman Kemalists...