Views of Turkey and "The Turk" in 20thcentury Czech and Slovak Literature

Sabatos, Charles

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“… Tahir and Türker (2000: 75) highlight that in some instances Turkish reforms in the Republican era were praised, but then it triggered debates about ‘Turkey’s liminal position between the East and the West and its ensuing identity crisis”. Sabatos (2000) reaches a similar conclusion relying on the Czech and Slovak literature. Sabatos (2000: 261) argues that the representation of Turks as “the dangerous and alien force” in Czech and Slovak imaginary did not necessarily change with the demise of the Ottoman Empire.…”

Section: The Second Period (1923–1945)supporting

confidence: 72%

“…The edited volume entitled “The image of the Turk in Europe from the declaration of the republic in 1923 to the 1990s” by Kuran-Burçoğlu (2000) hitherto remains the most comprehensive scholarly research on the European perceptions of Turks from 1923 onwards, but the book fails to live up to its promise of explaining in detail how the declaration of the Turkish Republic ‘as a turning point within the history of the image of Turks in Europe’ was observed by Europeans ( Kuran-Burçoğlu, 2000: 12 ). Nevertheless, several chapters of the book provide brief insights on how the Republican Turkey was viewed in different national (mostly Eastern European) settings ( Bibina, 2000 ; Murgeseu, 2000 ; Sabatos, 2000 ; Tahir & Türker, 2000 ). Especially, the chapter by Bibina (2000) exhaustively discusses the impressions of Vladimir Dimitrov, a famous Bulgarian painter during his visit to Istanbul in 1926.…”

Section: The Second Period (1923–1945)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The extant scholarly literature during the Republican period is primarily informed by the disciplines of History ( Aktürk, 2007 ; Aytürk, 2004 ; Barlas & Güvenç, 2009 ; Criss, 2008 ; Hanioğlu, 1997 ; Lewis, 1961 ; Murgeseu, 2000 ; Tachau, 1964 ; Waterfield, 1973 ; Yapp, 1992 ) and Politics ( Brewin, 2000 ; Criss, 2008 ; Helvacıoğlu, 1996 ; Heper, 2004 ; Keyman, 2006 ; Kösebalaban, 2007 ; Müftüler-Baç, 2000 ; Nas, 2001 ; Oğuzlu, 2002 ; Polat, 2006 ; Robins, 1996 ). Nevertheless, there are also works informed by other genres such as Literary Studies ( Clark, 2013 ; Ergin, 2010 ; Sabatos, 2000 ; Tahir & Türker, 2000 ; Wood, 1929 ), Sociology ( Ahıska, 2003 ; Keyder, 1993 ; Zarakol, 2010 ), Fine Arts ( Bibina, 2000 ; Kuran-Burçoğlu, 2003 ), Architecture ( Bozdoğan, 1998 ), City Planning ( Tekeli, 1998 ), Music ( Turan & Komsuoğlu, 2007 ) and Sports ( Şenyuva & Tunç, 2015 ) which provide a multi-disciplinary value to the research on the Republican period. However, as previously highlighted, except for a handful of sources, the bulk of the literature does not necesarily focus on the identity discussions between Turkey and Europe on a systematic fashion, but briefly touches upon the effects of the Republican transformation in the creation of a new Turkish identity and its reflections in Europe.…”

Section: The Second Period (1923–1945)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Historical method with reference to archival research, including the archives on the minutes of the League of Nations sessions, and British, French, Italian and Turkish diplomatic archives, remains another popular method used in the literature ( Barlas & Güvenç, 2009 ; Criss, 2008 ; Lewis, 1961 ; Waterfield, 1973 ). Moreover, textual analysis examining history books ( Aktürk, 2007 ; Murgeseu, 2000 ), national press ( Barlas & Güvenç, 2009 ; Wood, 1929 ; Zarakol, 2010 ) and literary texts such as poems and novels ( Ahıska, 2003 ; Clark, 2013 ; Ergin, 2010 ; Sabatos, 2000 ; Tahir & Türker, 2000 ; Zarakol, 2010 ) proves to be another notable methodological preference. Finally, studies examining the identity discussions of Republican Turkey reflected into fine arts such as operas ( Turan & Komsuoğlu, 2007 ) and paintings ( Bibina, 2000 ) bring metohodological novelty to the scholarly literature, despite the fact that there is no such study scrutinizing the image of Europe in Turkish fine arts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… Sabatos (2000: 261) argues that the representation of Turks as “the dangerous and alien force” in Czech and Slovak imaginary did not necessarily change with the demise of the Ottoman Empire. Although Czechoslovakia and the Turkish Republic shared no borders and had little contact during the interwar years, Czech and Slovak authors continued to depict ‘Turks’ as a symbol of foreign elements that threaten Czechoslovak sovereignty and intriguingly perceived ‘Jews’ as foreign spies working for Turks ( Sabatos, 2000: 262 ).…”

Section: The Second Period (1923–1945)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Europe and Turkey: identities in evolution. An analytical literature review

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Topal²,

Rumelili³

2023

Open Res Europe

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This research aims to offer a valid answer to the question of how Turks and Europeans perceived each other in cultural and identity terms throughout history. With this purpose, it makes a thorough analytical review of the extant scholarly literature on identity relations between Turkey and Europe. There is an evident lack of scholarly attention on the evolution of mutual representations comparatively in the long durée. Most scholarly works focus on specific periods of time and investigate either how Turks view Europe or visa-versa. This systematic review provides the basis for an evolutionary analysis of mutual identity representations between Turkey and Europe over more than a two-hundred-year period. The period under focus starts with the French Revolution (1789) triggering intensive identity debates between Ottomans and Europeans and lasts until mid-2010s when bilateral relations between Turkey and the European Union went into disarray. This long period has been divided into four shorter periods each starting and ending with a remarkable event in world politics or bilateral relations. The study examines each period in relation to four focal issues, namely, nationalism, civilization, status in international society, and state-citizen relations generating intensive identity discussions in both Turkey and Europe. The article first presents the key findings of the relevant literature on European representations of Turkey and on Turkish representations of Europe in the four historical periods. Then it scrutinizes the extant literature on each period with respect to the four focal issues. Overall, the study, through a comprehensive literature review, demonstrates the ways in which mutual identity representations in Turkey and Europe have been contested over a two-hundred-year period.

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Section: The Second Period (1923–1945)supporting

confidence: 72%