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^Yılmaz, Sezen Ravanoğlu. Everyday Nationalism in Turkey: Construction of Turkishness in Nevşehir. Middle East Technical University. 2022-09-28: 72-73 [2024-03-27]. (原始内容存档于2024-03-27) (土耳其语). With the third term of the party’s rule (2011- 2015), the Sunni- Turkish nationalism has become the focal point in the discourse of the party since the beginning of the 2010s...A common Ottoman past of the people living in Anatolia and Sunni- Islam as the dominant cultural element of this past took place as the most essential historical partnership of Islamic- conservative nationalism’s conception of nation. Additionally, The AKP’s interest in the Middle East is not shaped on the basis of “ummah”, but on the sovereignty area of the Ottoman Empire. This situation refers to an understanding of nationalism which aims to build a relationship with Muslim countries in which Turkey assumes leadership position. This kind of nationalism, embodied in the AKP’s discourses and actions, is defined and conceptualized as “Muslim nationalism” by White. Although the belief of the superiority of Turks is the common point of Kemalist nationalism and Muslim nationalism, the later regards Turkishness as a cultural identity of Sunni- Muslim.
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