Recipe for disaster: Juvenile delinquency as a vehicle of change in the absence of Faith
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 Nationalism seems to have stayed.
In contrast the Uthmanly were Religious Patriots. No wonder that the French are still struggling with this dichotomy between Nationalism and Patriotism
as evident in the latest remarks by its President.
In any case, be it the French Revolutionaries, Giovine Italia, or the Young Türk the dominant motif here seems to be the misuse of Juvenile Delinquency as a vehicle of change.
This is what the Monarchists almost everywhere failed to recognize. Very telling that the Khaldunian theory of Generational Cycle pivots around it. Of course the Assabiyya not of the spoiled offspring of the urban elites but of the frustrated offspring of the rural peasants.
What's important to realize is that for a Revolution to succeed the Khaldunian Transcendence is is a must. That is from the Assabiyya of self-interest to the Assabiyya of faith. And this is where the French Revolution and every other Revolution inspired by it failed. For the French Revolution was an outcry of Christianity's failure. As expressed in Nietzschean phrase: God is dead.
And what's more atrocious is that in their attempt to wipe the blood off their hands they tried to become God themselves. A neo-religion without God. Their failure to invent a new faith culminated in the ensuing chaos and carried through to other nations that were inspired by them.
That's the main issue here.
