The Politics of Nationalism in Recently Built Turkish Museums: the Case of the Kabatepe Simulation Centre and Museum

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Lorenzo Posocco
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[1] University College Dublin,School of Sociology
[2] École des hautes études en sciences sociales,Department of Political Science
来源：
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society | 2020年 / 33卷
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Nationalism; Turkey; National identity; Museums;
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With the coming to power of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), led by its leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish Muslim nationalism, a new national ideology promoted by the AKP, laid the foundations for a new Turkey and new Turks. Yeni Türkiye Yolunda (Towards a new Turkey) is the slogan used by the Erdoğan’s party to support a more nationalist Turkey intertwined with its Ottoman and Islamic heritage. In this paper, I put forward the claim that a number of State-sponsored institutions, including new national museums, play a relevant role in shaping this new Turkey. The aim is to investigate how museums operate as instruments of national identity building by exhibiting a fictitious national past. The case study of the Kabatepe Simulation Centre and Museum will serve this purpose. By interviewing politicians, bureaucrats, and historians, I have researched the links between a ruling class that supports Turkish Muslim nationalism, and new public museums, which exhibits it.
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