Nationalist Narratives on the Aziziye Bastions and Nene Hatun: A Place to Remember the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877 – 1878?
Nationalist Narratives on the Aziziye Bastions and Nene Hatun: A Place to Remember the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877 – 1878?

Summary/Abstract: The article follows the development of nationalist narratives on Aziziye Bastions and Nene Hatun in relation to the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877 – 1878 and how they were represented in nationalist historiography. We propose to look at the changes that the Aziziye Bastions underwent, in comparison to other bastions after they had become obsolete for military purposes and were slowly re-constructed in terms of a popular national narrative as a place to remember that “glorious” history in conjunction with the “heroine” cult of Nene Hatun and monumentalizing effects of these developments.

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