As a new nation state founded in 1923 on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, the
Republic of Turkey faced the need to establish a new national identity and ideology.
Recognizing the multiple faces of Turkish nationalism, this article explores how
Kemalist conceptions of national identity were not limited to civic nationalist
ideologies, but incorporated racist ascriptions of ethnic nationalism as well. Based
on the research and publications of scholars associated with the Turkish Review
of Anthropology from 1925 to 1939, this article analyzes a form of early
Turkish nationalism that was shaped by a racist discourse supported by and purveyed
through the disciplinary authority of anthropology. The author’s analysis
reveals a dominating and exclusionary discourse of Turkish nationalism, in which the
‘Turkish race’ (posited as the dominant national group) had a
sense of proprietary ownership of the nation and national identity.
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