A Study of the Multiple Dimensions of Atatürk Nationalism and Turkish National Identity
The process of nation-building is an important activity field of modern nationalism,and national identity is the prerequisite to maintain the unity and political stability of moderm nation-state.Based on the integration of nationalism elements in the Eastern and Western world,Turkish nationalism takes part in the nation-building and presents different dimensions.Political nationalism is founded on territorial identity and defines the boundaries of Türkiye and takes Anatolia as the center of the nation,which has laid the territory foundation for national identity.Civic nationalism takes the constitution as the foundation for strengthening Turkish citizenship,which constitutes the legitimate base for Turkish nation-building.Focusing on the unity of language and writing,cultural nationalism takes Turkish language and writing as the media to consolidate the national identity of the Turks.Ethnic nationalism seeks the scientific base of national identity which is founded on the sense of language and culture identity,the historical view of homology and the evolutionary idea.The characteristics of integration,pluralism,instrumentality and even contradiction embody the attempt to construct the paradigm of Turkish nationalism,but its different dimensions have allowed ethnic issues to emerge as a byproduct of the modernization process,giving more room for Neo-Ottomanism and promoting the convergence of Turkish nationalism and populism.All these have become a part of the trends of world's nationalism,the rising of"the Global South"and the dealing with the challenge of"globalization".
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