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Power, Civil Society and Culture in the Ottoman Empire

1969; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0010417500005338

1475-2999

Şerif Mardin,

Turkey's Politics and Society

Few countries have been as frequently described in terms of national character as Turkey. Even the earliest observers of the Ottoman Empire appear anxious to set their findings into some generalized formula of the Turkish ethos . The term used to refer to these attempts at national stereo-typing in the lingua franca of the Levant was Alia Turca behavior, an expression which has survived into modern Turkish.