Balkan Ulusçuluklarına Dair Bir Değerlendirme: Farklı Uluslar Farklı Usûller
An Interpretation about the Balkan Nationalisms: Different Nations Different Methods

Summary/Abstract: Nationalism and the national state system is the product of the economic, political, cultural inheritance of the Western European countries. This trend which was not pressed in the region where it was developed produced different methods and different results in the different regions because of the differences of thee conomic, political, cultural inheritance of those countries and because of the condition of that period. In the Balkans, during the end of the 19th century, different Balkan people under the reign of the Ottoman State which was continuing to loose the sovereignty and independency preferred the nationalistic way as a solution for their future and chosen different methods in order to establish their own national states. However, these differences were not in essence but only in details. The aims of these Balkan nations were common: to establish their own national states. But at the end, they could not be in so different point: They put different kinds of nationalistic examples but these national movements were not strong enough to establish the system as an independent state, no matter these people had economic, political, cultural inheritance and political and economic supports of the imperialistic states. In this paper, it is aimed to insist the idea that it is not possible to establish an independent and sovereign national state with a nationalist movement dependent on foreign countries and aids. To show this, the examples of Serbian, Greek, Bulgarian and Turkish nationalist movements during the 19th century are dealt by using different sources dealing with the Ottoman, Balkan, Turkish and European histories and with the nationalism reflecting different ideas on the subject.

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