The Formation of Turkish Republicanism / / Banu Turnaoğlu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2017
• VerfasserIn: Turnaoğlu, Banu,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Turkish republicanism is commonly thought to have originated with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the founding of modern Turkey in 1923, and understood exclusively in terms of Kemalist ideals, characterized by the principles of secularism, nationalism, statism, and populism. Banu Turnaoğlu challenges this view, showing how Turkish republicanism represents the outcome of centuries of intellectual dispute in Turkey over Islamic and liberal conceptions of republicanism, culminating in the victory of Kemalism in the republic's formative period.Drawing on a wealth of rare archival material, Turnaoğlu presents the first complete history of republican thinking in Turkey from the birth of the Ottoman state to the founding of the modern republic. She shows how the Kemalists wrote Turkish history from their own perspective, presenting their own version of republicanism as inevitable while disregarding the contributions of competing visions. Turnaoğlu demonstrates how republicanism has roots outside the Western political experience, broadening our understanding of intellectual history. She reveals how the current crises in Turkish politics-including the Kurdish Question, democratic instability, the rise of radical Islam, and right-wing Turkish nationalism-arise from intellectual tensions left unresolved by Kemalist ideology.A breathtaking work of scholarship, The Formation of Turkish Republicanism offers a strikingly new narrative of the evolution and shaping of modern Turkey.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Dramatis Personae -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Shaping the Empire -- Chapter Two: The Age of Transformation in Ottoman Political Thought -- Chapter Three: The Tanzimat Era and the Republicanism of the Young Ottomans -- Chapter Four: The Positivist Universalism and Republicanism of the Young Turks -- Chapter Five: The Political Thought of the Young Turk Revolution -- Chapter Six: Political Thought in the Balkan Wars -- Chapter Seven: Ottoman Political Thought during World War I -- Chapter Eight: The War of Independence (1919-22) -- Chapter Nine: The Victory of Radical Republicanism -- Conclusion: The Ideology of the Early Republic -- Bibliography -- Index