Autobiography and conservative-nationalist political opposition in Early Republican Turkey

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dc.citation.epage165en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.spage139en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber19en_US
dc.contributor.authorIpek, Y.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T16:03:20Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T16:03:20Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article examines how autobiography-writing evolved into a political space for Kazım Karabekir, Ali Fuat Cebesoy and Rauf Orbay, three major leaders of the Turkish War of Independence and the Progressive Republican Party. This article demonstrates that their autobiographies articulate a position of political opposition. This is a novel addition to academic literature that has so far presented these figures as early representatives of peripheral dissent against the Republic, or overstressed their Unionist legacy. The autobiographical politics of Karabekir, Cebesoy and Orbay extensively builds on moralizing discourses that contrast their own heroic accomplishments against the rise of a circle of military-bureaucratic elites-etraf-surrounding Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Through textual analysis, this article maintains that the moralizing discourses they use pose a peculiar blend of nationalism and conservatism-an elitist conservative nationalism that homogenizes political differences and ideological splits. The analysis contributes to the study of Early Republican oppositional politics and conservative political imaginary in Turkey.
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dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the TÜBİTAK [grant number 1649B030700456].
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14683849.2017.1397516
dc.identifier.eissn1743-9663en_US
dc.identifier.issn1468-3849
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/50097
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2017.1397516
dc.relation.project1649B030700456
dc.source.titleTurkish Studiesen_US
dc.subjectAutobiographyen_US
dc.subjectConservative nationalismen_US
dc.subjectEarly Republican Turkeyen_US
dc.subjectMoralityen_US
dc.subjectPolitical opposition in Turkeyen_US
dc.titleAutobiography and conservative-nationalist political opposition in Early Republican Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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