“Imagine a Country Where We Are All Equal”: Imperial Nostalgia in Turkey and Elif Shafak’s Ottoman Utopia

The invisible dome and the unbuilt bridge: Contemporary fiction and the mythologies of Ottoman architecture

“…Both novels avoid the romanticisation or domestication of history. Shafak has been charged (Furlanetto, 2015) with 'imperial nostalgia' in her other novels, even to the point of being 'neo-Ottomanist' (passim), although I would argue that her novels typically satirise Ottoman history. The Architect's Apprentice does not offer a rosy depiction of the Ottoman Empire.…”

Pax Ottomanica No More! The “Peace” Discourse in Turkish Foreign Policy in the Post‐Davutoğlu Era and the Prolonged Syrian Crisis

“…Pax Ottomanica is a term designed almost concurrently with, and in the same meaning as Richard Falk's use of Pax Americana in 1993 (Falk, ). As a way of remembering a glorious past, it initially aimed to refer to the possibility of extending “Turkey's renewed influence on the former imperial territories” and restoring an Ottoman‐like “multiculturalism within the border of Turkey” in the post‐Cold War atmosphere (Furlanetto, :176). Since remembering is a cognitive action that takes place in the present, in the course of this activity, the past is “continuously modified and re‐described” to the extent of imagining a new future carved out of those modifications (Quoted in Furlanetto:vii).…”