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The allied occupation of İstanbul and the construction of Turkish national identity in the early twentieth century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Pınar Şenışık
Pınar Şenışık*
Affiliation:
Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey
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*Email: psenisik@dogus.edu.tr
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Abstract

This article tells the story of the construction of Turkish national identity in the early republican era by addressing two canonical novels about occupied İstanbul: Sodom ve Gomore (“Sodom and Gomorrah”) by Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu and Biz İnsanlar (“We People”) by Peyami Safa. Following the establishment of the Turkish Republic, Turkish nationalist intellectuals attempted to offer certain formulations and implemented various mechanisms to create a national self. The study aims to focus on the ways in which Karaosmanoğlu and Safa create the new Turkish national identity and deals with the questions of how occupied İstanbul was perceived by these intellectuals and how the memory of the Allied occupation of İstanbul, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and the National Liberation Struggle shaped Turkish elites' self-identification as well as their formulation of the national identity.

Keywords

Turkish nationalismnational identityoccupied İstanbulallied occupationearly republican era
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 501 - 513
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Copyright © 2017 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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