The linkage between Turkish new nationalism and neo racism
Author
Budak, Özgür
Date
1996Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
Present study aims to analyze the new Turkish nationalism as a
political tendency in the 1990s which tries to construct the Turkish
national identity with the program of integrating to global society by
several references to catching the modem life style and standards.
Concerning the stress on the new Turkish national identity which has
reached an osmosis with the western style of life including consumption
cultures and general standards of modem life, the study aims to connect
these references with the retheorization of neo-racism elaborated by
Balibar and to show the possible commonalities between new Turkish
nationalism and cultural racism.
Additionally, the study aims to explain the main aspects of the new
nationalism related to the selected writings of five columnists (Engin
Ardıç, Ertuğml Özkök, Hmcal Uluç, Serdar Turgut, Ali Kırca) as the
representatives of this new nationalist tendency in mass media and point
out the possible differences among these columnists in respect to the styles
and references which they use.