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      Villain or hero? Shifting views of Abdülhamid II and his era in republican Turkey

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      Author(s)
      Grigoriadis, Ioannis N.
      Date
      2022-10-22
      Source Title
      Turkish Historical Review
      Print ISSN
      1877-5454
      Electronic ISSN
      1877-5462
      Publisher
      Brill
      Volume
      13
      Issue
      1-2
      Pages
      141 - 156
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      Narratives and representations of the past in the present sometimes tell us more about the present than the past itself. Views of Ottoman history have varied in republican Turkey, according to political and ideological circumstances. The era of Sultan Abdülhamid ii has remained one of the most contested ones. While classic republican Turkish historiography has identified the Hamidian era with Oriental despotism, blamed it for the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, but exonerated it for the killings of Armenians, recent historical interest in the era has been revisionist. Some scholars offer a more balanced evaluation of the Hamidian period, while other approaches move to the opposite extreme, aggrandizing Sultan Abdülhamid ii and his era and also pointing to alleged Young Turk treason. These approaches have coincided with a re-evaluation of the ideological foundations of republican Turkey and the re-emergence of a cult of personality in mainstream Turkish politics.
      Keywords
      Ottoman Empire
      Turkey
      Abdülhamid II
      Narrative
      Historiography
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/111588
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1163/18775462-bja10039
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