The Formation of Turkish Republicanism

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Turkish republicanism is commonly thought to have originated with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and the founding of modern Turkey in 1923, and understood exclusively in terms of Kemalist ideals, characterized by the principles of secularism, nationalism, statism, and populism. Banu Turnaoglu challenges this view, showing how Turkish republicanism represent

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"One of CHOICEs Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017"
"Shortlisted for the 2018 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society"
"This is the best one volume interpretive history of the historical, intellectual, philosophical, and political origins of the ideal of republicanism in the late Ottoman Empire and in the Turkish Republic after its creation in 1923. It is a remarkable, erudite interpretation that contests previous interpretations by many foremost European, American, and Turkish scholars of Turkey. . . . A marvelous book." * Choice *
"A noteworthy addition to the emerging body of critiques of traditional historiography on the formation of the modern Turkish state, as it successfully constructs the continuities in political thought between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic."---A. Cokun Tuner, English Historical Review

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Banu Turnaolu is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.