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      A different story of secularism: the censorship of religion in turkish films of the 1960s and early 1970s

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      Mutlu, D. K.
      Koçer, Z.
      Date
      2012
      Source Title
      European Journal of Cultural Studies
      Print ISSN
      13675494
      Publisher
      SAGE
      Volume
      15
      Issue
      1
      Pages
      70 - 88
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This article extends the discussion of Turkish secularism from political history to cultural history. It examines censorship of religious elements in Turkish films of the 1960s and early 1970s based on the reports of the Central Film Control Commission in Ankara, responsible for inspecting domestic films from 1939 to 1977. The article argues that the censorship commission, as an extension of the state, functioned as a guard of Kemalist secularism and a 'true' Islam (a private, enlightened, apolitical, national and Sunni Islam). This ambivalent attitude towards religion underlines the complexity of Turkish secularism, which distinguish it from western models of secularism. The article concludes with a discussion of two inspection cases in 1970, which point to a significant shift in the commission's attitude towards religion in films and prove that the founding principle of secularism and its later politics in the 1960s did not distance the country from its Islamic heritage.
      Keywords
      Film censorship
      Islam
      Secularism
      Turkey
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/21598
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549411424948
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