Table of Contents

Introduction (Hans-Lukas Kieser) Part I. Turkish nationalism: the ideological weight of the founding period (1905-1938) 1 Turkism: the real force of the Young Turk party (Mehmed S. Hanioglu) 2 An ethno-nationalist revolutionary and theorist of Kemalism: Dr Mahmut Esat Bozkurt 1892-1943 (Hans-Lukas Kieser). 3 Kemalism, westernization and anti-liberalism (Hamit Bozarslan). Part II. Turkish nationalism: the trauma of unitarist Turkification and social engineering 4 The settlement policy of the Committee of Union and Progress 1913-1918 (Fuat Dundar). 5 The politics of Turkification during the Single Party period (Rifat Bali). 6 Depriving non-Muslims of citizenship as part of the Turkification policy in the early years of the Turkish Republic: The case of Turkish Jews and its consequences during the Holocaust (Corinna Gorgu). 7 The exodus of Armenians from the Sanjak of Alexandretta in the 1930s (Berna Pekesen). 8 Turkish nationalism and the Donme (Marc Baer, University of California-Irvine). 9 Claiming difference in an unitarist frame: the case of the Alevis (Elise Massicard). Part III. The historiographical challenge 10 Defining the parameters of a post-nationalist Turkish historiography: going back to 1902 (Fatma Muge Gocek, University of Michigan). 11 Facing the responsibility of the Armenian genocide? At the origins of a discourse that legitimizes mass violence. (Raymond H. Kevorkian, University of Paris III). Part IV. Turkey in motion: today's transformations and post-national challenges 12 The social grammar of populist nationalism (Ebru Bulut). 13 Religion: nation-building instrument of the state or factor of civil society? The AKP between state- and society-centered religious politics (Gunter Seufert). 14 Post-nationalist semiotics? The emblem of the Justice and Development Party AKP (Beatrice Hendrich). 15 The urgency of post-nationalist perspectives: "Turkey for the Turks" or an open society? On the Kurdish conflict (Gulistan Gurbey). Part V. Turkey in motion: the EU perspective 16 Turkey's fragile EU perspectives since the 1960s (Eugen Krieger). 17 The non-Muslim minorities and reform in Turkey (Gabriel Goltz). 18 National identity, asylum and immigration: the EU as a vehicle of post-national transformation in Turkey (Kemal Kirisci).

About the Author

Hans-Lukas Kieser is a visiting Professor of Turkish and Ottoman history at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany, and a Privatdozent of Modern History at the University of Zurich. The other contributors include leading international historians, sociologists and political scientists from France, Germany, Switzerland, the USA,Turkey and Cyprus.