The Shared Political Production of ‘the East’ as a ‘Resistant’ Territory and Cultural Sphere in the Kemalist Era, 1923-1938

While traditional accounts of Atatürk’s Turkey approach the state as a powerful and centralized apparatus, this article suggests, on the contrary, that Turkey was still a state in the making and lacked a consistent policy in the face of the multiple social and political challenges that emerged in th...

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Main Author: Jordi Tejel Gorgas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient 2009-12-01
Series:European Journal of Turkish Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejts/4064