Suchergebnisse

The emergence of Turkish nationalism: from Ottomanism to Turkism -- Two great minds: Yusuf Akçura and ziya Gökalp -- Kemalist nationalism: "happy is the person who says i am a Turk" -- Ethnic nationalism under the shadow of the Gray Wolf: racism and pan-Turkism -- Conservative nationalism: the Turkish-Islamic synthesis or the Turkish-Islamic ideal? -- Conclusion: the end of nationalism?

Introduction: The role of ideas and interests in Turkish foreign policy -- 1. State identity and foreign policy: the impact of ideas and power -- 2. The three paths of Turkish nationalism and Kemalist state identity -- 3. Turkish foreign policy analysis -- 4. The annexation of Hatay: exception or harbinger of future policy? -- 5. Turkey's national cause: Cyprus in Turkish foreign policy -- 6. The Karabagh issue and the emergence of the Turkic world.

Abstract
This article offers a comparative analysis of Tel Aviv and Izmir based on their urban identities grounded on a secular modernist ideological outlook and a Mediterranean way of life based on egalitarian and democratic norms. These criteria will be operationalized by analyzing the ideological preferences as well possibilities for alternative lifestyles for the residents of both cities. Due to the policies of right-wing governments in both countries, there has been an increasingly overbearing impact of religion in the daily lives of the people and have been undergoing a redefinition of their national identities at the expense of the secular aspects of their national attributes. While a significant number of citizens in both countries have been leaning towards an ethnoreligious worldview, Tel Aviv in Israel and Izmir in Turkey resist such attempts and remain bastions of secularism with their Mediterranean way of life. This study purports to present the similarities and differences between the two cities within their larger conservative setting.

Ideational change in the self-characterization of a state is bound to have repercussions on its domestic and foreign policy behavior. Consequently, the gradual but radical change that has been ongoing in Turkey in the past two decades has had a wide-ranging impact on the way Turkish foreign policy has been conducted. Whereas survival and protection of territorial integrity as well as a Western orientation were traditionally the main concerns of Turkish policy-makers, under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) (since 2002), there has been a partial Islamization of Turkish foreign policy especially with regard to liaisons with Israel and Palestine. This shift can be explained by the replacement of the Western Turkish state identity with an Islamic conservative outlook.