The Sources Of Banality In Transforming Turkish Nationalism
The Sources Of Banality In Transforming Turkish Nationalism

Summary/Abstract: Turkish nationalism is a deep-rooted ideology which produced its own intellectual capital after the second half of the nineteenth century. Essentially, this ideology, as most of the others, had been based on the conventional dichotomy of ‘we and the other’, yet by the 1990s it disguised into another form of so-called banal nationalism, thereby deconstructing itself and leading to the emergence of new fractions which tended to conceptualize it from varied perspectives. This study primarily aims at discussing the general characteristics of the former and new forms of nationalisms in Turkey following a historical line highlighted with the incidents which can be taken as milestones in a process of nationbuilding, and which depict how ‘external’ and ‘internal’ others were deliberately chosen to steer the process of converting a traditional society into a modern Western-oriented one.

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