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The B alkan W ars and the rise of the reactionary modernist utopia in young T urk thought and the journal T ürk Y urdu [ T urkish H omeland ]
Author(s) -
Kurt Ümİt,
Gürpınar Doğan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
nations and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1469-8129
pISSN - 1354-5078
DOI - 10.1111/nana.12103
Subject(s) - reactionary , nationalism , utopia , sociology , theology , philosophy , law , political science , politics
Abstract The article examines the rise of the ‘reactionary modernist’ project that developed after the devastating defeat of the B alkan Wars and which was promoted by the Y oung T urks by means of articles published in T urkish H omeland, the intellectual platform of the Y oung T urks. The article argues that the outlines of this project to a large extent shaped the contours of T urkish nationalism then, and that they have hence been constitutive of T urkish nationalism ever since.