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Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary TurkeyCommemorating the First World War and Its Aftermath: Neo-Ottomanism, Gender, and the Politics of History in Turkey

Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey: Commemorating the First World War and Its... [This chapter discusses the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) neo-Ottomanist history politics with a focus on commemoration and memorialisation of the First World War and the “Independence War” in Turkey. These commemorations refer to a mythical Ottoman past that stresses Sunni-Muslim-Turkish imperial legacy and the prominence of Muslim faith, solidarity, and martyrdom. While they undermine the hero cult around Mustafa Kemal and pluralize heroism by including women (and other male warriors), the commemorations consciously omit the existence of non-Muslim soldiers and ethnic violence against non-Muslims. The chapter traces incorporation of mythical narratives of women warriors into the centennial memorialisation in order to explore the shift in the construction of masculinities and femininities. Although the recognition of women’s participation in the war effort is a step towards pluralisation, women’s heroic representations reflect the same neo-Ottomanist obsession with “Muslim martyrdom” that rests on a masculinist notion of heroism, and a homogeneous ethno-religious identity.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary TurkeyCommemorating the First World War and Its Aftermath: Neo-Ottomanism, Gender, and the Politics of History in Turkey

Part of the Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe Book Series
Editors: Raudvere, Catharina; Onur, Petek
Maksudyan, Nazan; Alkan, Hilal
Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey — Dec 14, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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978-3-031-08022-7
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175 –208
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10.1007/978-3-031-08023-4_7
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[This chapter discusses the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) neo-Ottomanist history politics with a focus on commemoration and memorialisation of the First World War and the “Independence War” in Turkey. These commemorations refer to a mythical Ottoman past that stresses Sunni-Muslim-Turkish imperial legacy and the prominence of Muslim faith, solidarity, and martyrdom. While they undermine the hero cult around Mustafa Kemal and pluralize heroism by including women (and other male warriors), the commemorations consciously omit the existence of non-Muslim soldiers and ethnic violence against non-Muslims. The chapter traces incorporation of mythical narratives of women warriors into the centennial memorialisation in order to explore the shift in the construction of masculinities and femininities. Although the recognition of women’s participation in the war effort is a step towards pluralisation, women’s heroic representations reflect the same neo-Ottomanist obsession with “Muslim martyrdom” that rests on a masculinist notion of heroism, and a homogeneous ethno-religious identity.]

Published: Dec 14, 2022

Keywords: Commemoration; First World War; Gender; Martyrdom; Memorialisation; Neo-Ottomanism

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