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Constitution‐writing, nationalism and the Turkish experience
Author(s) -
Bayar Yeşim
Publication year - 2016
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.12221
Subject(s) - turkish , nationalism , constitution , salience (neuroscience) , elite , politics , sociology , law , state (computer science) , political science , political economy , gender studies , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , cognitive psychology , algorithm
Until recently there has been relatively little attention paid to the question of how the relationship between the state, its citizens and the nation is articulated in constitutional texts. This paper seeks to address this gap through an examination of how the rules of belonging to the nation are discussed by the political elite and how these discussions find their final formulation in the constitutional texts. The analysis focuses on the Turkish case at two constitution‐writing moments (1924 and 1961). While such moments have conventionally been assumed to be ‘revolutionary’, the data on Turkey highlights continuities rather than radical changes over time. More particularly, it underscores the resilience and salience of the principle of nationalism over time.

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