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In their quest to reorganize Ottoman-Turkish society, the reforming elite ended up isolating itself from society at large and became a close-minded and inward-looking ruling class.
Sayfa 29
Reşat Kasaba
Today, with the declining hold of Kemalist restrictions and other state-centered ideologies, we are better able to see most men and women living Turkey not merely as objects of a project but also as subjects of their history.
Sayfa 31
Reşat Kasaba
Kemalists deny the existence of a “Kurdish problem” and speak mostly in euphemisms such as “terrorism” and “underdevelopment.”
Sayfa 17
Reşat Kasaba
Some of the ideas put forth by Islamists and Kurdish nationalists are no better than the Kemalist absolutisms in terms of their plausibility or capacity to provide a frame of reference for a fast-modernizing society like Turkey.
Sayfa 18
Reşat Kasaba
By the 1980s, the situation had changed completely. The Turkish people, few of whom now remembered the early years of republic, had grown extremely suspicious of, and cynical about, the latest incarnations of the promises of “enlightened and prosperous tomorrows.” Instead of making further sacrifices for a future that kept eluding them, they were starting to inquire about histories, institutions, beliefs, identities, and cultures from which they had been forcefully separated. (…) The Kemalist program of modernization –including its economic policies, secularist tenets, and ethnonationalist foundations- came under close scrutiny and received increasingly vocal criticism.
Sayfa 16
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