the politics of shifting to the east, which is interpreted in the statements of turkish islamist politicians as ottomanism, is a newly emerged strategy which is essentially comprehensible in the connection with the history and identity of the ottoman era and the new regional and trans-regional role of turkey. the ideology of ottomanism not only implies the expansion of turkey’s influence on the...

Abstract Turkey and Japan have comparable histories of modernization beginning in the nineteenth century. They since then produced modernities that are considered a mix “Eastern” “Western.” Over recent decades, both faced question what comes after modernity began manufacturing their versions authenticities cultural exports. This paper comparatively locates two symptoms this process. “Neo-Ottoma...

neo-ottomanism in recent decades has been among the most controversial political debates in related academies and literature. frequent references to it by turkish officials in recent years, multiplied its importance in international relations. the term obviously owes its significance to the ottoman empire era, and accordingly, a sufficient analysis on the challenges of the empire during its las...

The purpose of this article is to cast some light on the question as why and how nationalism appeared rather suddenly on the political stage in Turkey at the beginning of the 20 th century. This article asserts that Turkish nationalism was an answer to the particular historical conditions that characterised the final phases of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of the modern Turkey. This article ...

"… the Turks, public servants or soldiers, remained in sum what they’ve always been, Barbarians making a life out of plunder and robbery..." The above statement reveals how one finest institutions Ottoman Greek letters sciences, Hellenic Literary Society at Constantinople, described Turks petition to its honorary members, academics, university professors, learned societies Allied countries thos...