Turkish nationalism

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The neutrality of this article is disputed.
Please see the discussion on the talk page.

Turkish Nationalism is a political ideology that promotes and glorifies the Turkish people, as either a national, ethnic or linguistic group. Like most forms of nationalism, it usually puts the interests of the state over all others influences,^{[citation needed]} including religious ones.^{[citation needed]}

1 History of Turkish Nationalism
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

[edit] History of Turkish Nationalism

Turkish nationalism began with the Turanian Society founded in 1839, followed in 1908 with the Turkish Society, which later expanded into the Turkish Hearth^[1] and eventually expanded to include ideologies such as Pan-Turanism and Pan-Turkism. The Young Turk revolution which overthrew sultan Abdul Hamid II, allowed Turkish nationalism into power, eventually leading to the Three Pashas control of the late Ottoman government. It is widely believed that the nationalistic leanings of the Young Turks, Enver Pasha in particular, is what led the Committee of Union and Progress to oversee a series of massacres, mass arrests, and deportations against Anatolia's largest Christian Minority in what is known as the Armenian genocide during WWI.^{[citation needed]} After the collapse of the Ottoman empire, the reformer Mustafa Kemal Atatürk came to power. Ataturk believed in a purely Anatolian turkish state,^{[citation needed]} and discouraged the Pan-Turkic ambitions of his predecessors. Ataturk also put forward a theory about the origins of the Turkish people, Sun Language Theory which he himself proposed while attempting to 'cleanse' the Turkish language of foreign influences. Turkish researchers at the time also came up with the idea that Early Sumerians were proto-turks.^[2]