Browsing by Subject "Pan-Turkism"

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Baku expedition of 1917-1918 : a study of the Ottoman policy towards the Caucasus
(2007) Murgul, Yalçın
The Ottoman expedition to Baku has central importance in Caucasus between the Bolshevik Revolution and end of the WWI. Since the Ottoman expedition to Baku was the most concrete action towards domination of the area, it served as the main determinant in the formation of relations between the Great Powers and the Caucasian people fighting for their sovereignty in the period until October 1918. This thesis based on a multi-sided bibliography, attempts to study the Baku Operation of the CaucasusIslam Army commanded by Nuri Pasha in the course of the First World War in detail by analyzing both political and military processes and international dimensions, with a detailed picture of the whole process. By placing the Ottoman Operation at the centre, it aims to analyze the perception of both sides of the international struggle over Baku. iv Since the studies on the Committee of Union and Progress and Enver Pasha give special place to the issue of Pan-Turkism, this study argues that Ottoman Army’s Baku operation has a special place in Ottoman history as one of practical implementations of Pan-Turkist policies and it has an important role in the shaping of Azerbaijani National Movement in Transcaucasia. The thesis is divided into three parts. These are “The Ottoman State’s Caucasus Policy from the February Revolution to Batum Treaties”, “The General Situation in Transcaucasia before Baku Operation”, and “The CaucasusIslam Army’s Baku Operation”. In this context Germany, Soviet Russia and Britain’s strategies in the region will also be considered.
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Bir asırlık çınar: Dr. Necdet Özgelen
(Bilkent University, 2020) Gülay, Ozan; Gür, Defne Göksu; Erinç, Gökçe; Yaz, Elif; Dönmez, Cenk
Dr. Necdet Özgelen, Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi'nde yetişmiş, Hüseyin Nihâl Atsız gibi zamanın önde gelen Türkçü-Turancı düşünürleriyle yakın münasebetlerde bulunmuş, literatüre 1944 Irkçılık-Turanclılık Davası olarak geçen önemli hadiseyi yaşamış ve aynı zamanda Kut'ül-Amâre kahramanı Halil Kut Paşa'nın manevi oğlu olan bir isimdir. Bu çalışmada Necdet Özgelen'in tanık olduğu önemli olaylar, onlara dair ışık tutabilecek anlatıları beraberinde, kişisel gelişiminde etkili kimselerle ilgili tecrübeleri işlenmiş, böylece Cumhuriyet'in yetiştirdiği ilk nesillerden olan Özgelen'in hayat hikâyesinin ana hatlarının aktarılması hedeflenmiştir.
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Depicting the enemy : Russians and Ottomans in the press during the First World War
(2007) Zardykhan, Zharmukhamed
The intricate course of events that led both the Russian and Ottoman Empires towards the Great War had been the culmination of long-lasting domestic and international developments, which were reflected in their policies towards the other side. However, despite the ardent hatred and evident enmity that prevailed over the Russo-Ottoman relations for centuries, both of these empires were faced with similar problems of political, socioeconomic and national character that distinguished them from the rest of Europe and Asia. Whether out of hopelessness, inevitability, greater expectations or simply as a precious opportunity to rehabilitate their former reputation, seriously damaged after iv the humiliating Russo-Japanese and Balkan wars, the levying of war against their historical enemies deeply affected each countries' entire population. The effect was particularly strong because of the advanced and elaborate total war propaganda techniques employed primarily by the press, while the religious, nationalistic and historical aspects of the confrontation made the propaganda warfare a diverse and complicated battlefield. The main objective of this work is the presentation, comparison and analysis of a great variety of controversial pieces of information related to the Russo-Ottoman confrontation prior to and during the First World War. This information reveals personal prejudice, ethnic, religious and political affiliation of the authors, as well as deliberate attempts to spread misinformation and propaganda.
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Imagining Turan: homeland and its political implications in the literary work of Hüseyinzade Ali [Turan] and Mehmet Ziya [Gökalp]
(Routledge, 2020) Grigoriadis, Ioannis N.; Opçin-Kıdal, Arzu
While scholarly interest in the influence of Tatar intellectuals on Turkish nationalism has been strong, less attention has been paid to the interactions between Russian Azerbaijani and Ottoman Turkish intellectuals. This study applies theoretical tools developed by Benedict Anderson in the study of ethnic nationalism in the late Ottoman and Russian Empires. In doing so, this study focuses on the works of one leading intellectual from each side, Hüseyinzade Ali [Turan] and Mehmet Ziya [Gökalp]. Particular attention is paid to the concept of Turan, which they defined and elaborated as both a political ideal and a key element of the nationalist ideology they espoused through four poems they authored, two of which have homonymous titles. Their different views of the limits of the Turanian ‘imagined community’ and the political operationalization of the concept shed light on the development of ethnic nationalism in the declining Ottoman and Russian Empires. Ever since, Turan has become a significant symbolic conceptual tool that has fired the imaginations of Turkic nationalists (without, yet, having led to the establishment of a serious political movement).