Identity Problems Of Turkey During The European Union Process (E-Kitap)

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION . 1

CHAPTER 1. NATIONAL IDENTITIES 5

1.1. National and Other ldentities . 5

1.1.1. Definition and Construction of an Identity: Self, Other and Altered: 5

1. 1 .2. N ational Identity: 1 O

1.2. The Primordial Roots of National ldentity: Transition from Ethnicity to

N ationalism . 14

1.2.1. Ethnic Group, Ethnic Identity and Ethnicity: . 14

1.2.2. From Ethnicity to Nationalism: . 17

1.3. The Nation Building in Modern Era: Nation, Nation State and Nationalism 20

1.3. 1. The Etymological Analysis of the Nation: 23

1.3.2. The Preceding Problem: Nation, State, and Nationalism . 25

1 .4. Building of Nationalism: . 28

1.5. Building of Multiculrural ldentities: Beyond Nationalism . 33

CHAPTER 2. TURKISH IDENTITY . 37

2.1. BuildingofTurkish ldentity . 37

2.1.1. The Etymological Analysis of the T erm T urk: . 39

2.1.2. Building ofTurkish Identity in Nationalist Historiography: . 40

2.2. Onoman ldentity: 47

2.3. Turkish Identity during the Westernization Process . 52

2.3.1. The Concept ofWesternization 54

2.3.2. The Consciousness of Turkish ldentity in Westernization Process: 57

2.4. Kemalist Modernization Project and the Emergence of New T urkish Identity: 60

2.4. 1. Kemalist Modernization Project: 60

2.4.3. T urkish Identity in Kemalist Modernization Project: 63

2.4.4. Contemporary Turkish Identity: 68

2.5. Turkish ldentity in Building of Turkish Nationalism: 69

2.5.1. Anatolian Humanists 76

2.5.2. Turk-Islam Synthesizers: . 80

2.5.3. Kemalists: 83

2.5.4. Contemporary Synthesizers of the Culture: . 87

2.5.5. The Nomadic Identity: . 90

CHAPTER 3. EUROPEAN IDENTITY: 93

CHAPTER 4. IDENTITY PROBLEMS OF TURKEY DURING THE

EUROPEAN UNION INTEGRATION PROCESS: 115

CONCLUSION 135

BIBLIOGRAPHY 139