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    Enver Pasha and the political currents in the late Ottoman period
    (2000) Özmen, Ayşe Gülru
    This thesis analyzes the dominant political currents in the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the twentieth century- namely Pan- Turkism, PanIslamism, Ottomanism- and aims to figure out which of these currents that Enver Pasha mostly emphasized. Within this context, the emergence of the Pan- movements, competing ideologies in the late Ottoman period, the role of Enver Pasha within the CUP and his activities and statements which can be incorporated with these ideologies will be discussed. The thesis also trace the different arguments made by historians regarding the political preferences of Enver Pasha. It will seek to answer questions such as, which of these ideologies Enver Pasha used interchangebly, what were the external and internal circumstances that influenced his position and why there are many divergent arguments about his political preferences.
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    Narratives of the ideal Turk image in Turkish collective memory: an analysis of TV dramas “Payitaht: Abdülhamid II” and “Mehmetçik Kût-ül Amâre”
    (2018-07) Geylan, Zeynep
    This thesis analyzes the construction of the ideal Turk images by the television dramas Payitaht: Abdülhamid II and Mehmetçik Kût-ül Amâre in relation to the production of collective memory. They are examined within the framework of JDP s nationalism project, in particular the similarities and differences of the JDP s ideal image from the initial concept of ideal citizen constructed during the years of the early Republic. The aim of this thesis is to show what kind of an ideal citizen the JDP government constructs and implies it through revisiting the existing elements of the ideal citizen which exists in Turkish collective memory in relation to their nationalism project. The characteristics of the represented ideal image is analyzed based on the four most repeated notions in both series. The ideal Turk s understanding of what their national duties are, their relationship withIslam, the West and the internal others have been determined as categories of analysis.After that, the changes and continuities between this narration and the official narration that is constructed during the first years of the new Republic is acknowledged with relation to the present government s doctrine.