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Papers by Dogan Gurpinar

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2013

Turkish Studies, Feb 6, 2022

European Journal of Turkish Studies. Social Sciences on Contemporary Turkey, May 2, 2012

Anatolia between the Turkish invasions and the Ottoman era was almost a terra incognita for the h... more Anatolia between the Turkish invasions and the Ottoman era was almost a terra incognita for the historians at the beginning of the 20 th century. The imposing presence of the Ottomans through six centuries all but obliterated Anatolia's earlier history and rendered it irrelevant and unattractive in the eyes of scholars. This did not stem from the deliberate Ottoman neglect of the Seljuks, as might be expected. The Ottomans themselves did not omit the Seljuks of Rum. On the contrary, the Ottoman tradition (as conveyed extensively in

Conspiracy Theories in Turkey, 2019

Springer eBooks, Dec 16, 2022

Turkish Studies, Sep 16, 2019

The article is made up of two distinct parts. The first part surveys the discourses and tropes of... more The article is made up of two distinct parts. The first part surveys the discourses and tropes of intellectuality of the Turkish old-right. The second part specifically discusses the crisis of the conservative intelligentsia as the Islamist takeover of Turkish government in 2002 did not result in conservative intellectuals dominating the intellectual realm. Continuing to remain marginalized and their promises unfulfilled, they have refurbished the old right's tropes of intellectualism and reiterate the tropes of usurpation of the intellectual realm, while claiming to represent the genuine intelligentsia of the organic nation.

Middle Eastern Studies, Nov 1, 2012

This article discusses how the discourse of ‘Anatolia, the loveable and beautiful’ was developed ... more This article discusses how the discourse of ‘Anatolia, the loveable and beautiful’ was developed after the retreat of the Ottomans from the Balkans and how Anatolia emerged as the construction site of the Kemalist project of ‘national modernity’ and ‘Anatolian enlightenment’. Based on a meticulous reading of the ethnographies, histories and monographs on Anatolian cities and regions published between 1923 and 1950 as well as the journals of the local branches of People's Houses, the article demonstrates how the regime attempted to establish its legitimacy by incorporating the local elements into the ‘grand national narrative’ and nationalizing the Anatolian countryside.

Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Dec 1, 2013

This paper discusses the surge of neo-nationalism and conspiratorial thinking in tandem with the ... more This paper discusses the surge of neo-nationalism and conspiratorial thinking in tandem with the rise of the Turkish revisionist historiography highly critical of Turkish nationalism and its legacy in the 20th century in the 2000s. The paper also examines the demonization of these historiographical deviations by proponents of Kemalist nation-statism. Because these revisionists challenged nation-statist assumptions, such as the innocence of the Turkish nation and its self-victimization, their academic output was perceived as blasphemy against the common values of Turkish society, further fomenting neo-nationalist sentiment. Thus, the paper argues that the genesis of a revisionist historiography and the rising popularity of conspiracy theories among the public cannot be disassociated from each other.1

Uluslararası ilişkiler dergisi, 2020

This article analyses the evolving discourses over Turkish foreign policy deeply entrenched withi... more This article analyses the evolving discourses over Turkish foreign policy deeply entrenched within the Turkish cultural wars. It demonstrates the process and mechanisms that render Turkish foreign policy an extension of the pursuit of cultural politics and statements of identity. It also assesses how the Middle East was posited not only as a theater of diplomacy but also as a rhetorical gadget over contested Turkish identity, especially pushed by the AKP intelligentsia and policymakers and avidly defied by the secular opposition. Its emphasis is on the Arab Spring and Turkey's immersion into the Syrian civil war, as these developments exacerbated the overlap between foreign policy making and discourses on foreign policy, particularly since the AKP sought not only diplomatic opportunities but also a regional transnational realignment as a result of the Arab Spring and the regional revolutionary milieu.

This study investigates how Seljuks of Rum are posited within the Turkish historty in the republi... more This study investigates how Seljuks of Rum are posited within the Turkish historty in the republican era. Although this study had confined itself only to academically oriented studies, rather than being a study of historiography, it tried to displaty the nationalist baggage that had to be tried to realized upon constructions of Seljuks of Rum. After overviewing the late Ottoman historiography and their shy encounter with Seljuks of Rum and "western Turks", the study begins with discussing the Kemalist imagination of Turkish history with a special focus on the Kemalist position towards Seljuks of Rum in this imagination. Fuad Koprulu, who had revolutionarty impact on the studies of Seljuks of Rum had been also under scrunity and had been analyzed how he had posited Seljuks of Rum in the Turkish history. Finally, study approaches to the later works on Seljuks of Rum and Great Seljuks by politically conservative oriented scholars and especially Osman Turan. In the conclusion, all these alternative interpretations of Seljuks of Rum had been analyzed in the light of their differing modes of nationalism and concluded that different interpretations although clashing partially had been reflections of the gradually consolidating of ideology of the modern Turkish nation-state.

De Gruyter eBooks, Mar 21, 2022