“Aggrieved” Nationalism “Democratic” Weakness and Nation Impasse of the Kurdish Polity
2011; Volume: 22; Issue: 80 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5455/ey.20025
ISSN2791-9439
Autores Tópico(s)Turkey's Politics and Society
Resumo“Nationalism ” has arguably become the most convoluted subject matter in the academic fýeld. In Turkey, this is a little more unvarnished, but has also taken a very unsavoury form: “nationalism” is almost completely used as a replacement for “patriotism”. Whereas there are more than enough words available for daily or academic use to describe one’s love for his/her ethnicity. This work will attempt to untangle the multi-faceted mix-up of the two concepts of nationalism and patriotism, in other words an attempt at the distillation of nationalism. On the back of such a theoretical sanitization, the study will then approach Turkey’s biggest problem of the last thirty years, the Kurdish question, and show rather that this could be an opportunity for Turkey.
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