Recipe for disaster: Juvenile delinquency as a vehicle of change in the absence of Faith
Tweet : This is identity appropriation inversed. A very common technique among the leftist revolutionary currents and not uncommon as a historical phenomenon either. But it is not the main issue here provided that Turkic is not a monolithic ethnic identity. Besides the Uthmanly were not merely Turkic they were "Osmanlı Türkleri". "Türk" had actually been used as a derogatory term for the Anatolian shepherds. Uncultured, uncouth. I think the main issue here is the legacy of French Revolution. It agitated the youth globally. For example, the Young Türk is considered to be influenced by Giovine Italia. And nationalism is one of its dirty artifacts. Hence Attatürk. The modern turkification of Anatolia under his terror regime and the identity politics of modern Türkiye at large. The birth of Nationalist Türkiye. Within the spectrum of Ethnic Nationalism and Religious Nationalism Attatürk leaned towards ethnicity while Erdoğan leans towards religiosity. But...