| The Formation of Turkish Republicanism Subjects: Turkey -- Politics and government; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire 1288-1918; Atatürk Kemal 1881-1938 -- Political and social views; Republicanism -- Turkey -- History; Islam and politics -- Turkey -- History; Liberalism -- Turkey -- History; Turke; Turkish republicanism is commonly thought to have originated with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 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 Turnaoğlu challenges this view, showing how Turkish republicanism represents the outcome of centuries of intellectual dispute in Turkey over Islamic and liberal conceptions of republicanism, culminating in the victory of Kemalism in the republic's formative period. Banu Turnaoğlu is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. |