TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMAGE OF ATATURK IN THE MODERN MEMORIAL CULTURE OF TURKEY
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https://doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2024-1-94-102Keywords:
Turkey; Atatürk; historical memory; politics of memory; memorial culture; nationalism; Islam; historical revisionismAbstract
The article analyzes the development features and main transformation vectors of Atatürk's image in Turkey's modern memory policy. The authors presume that various agents of historical politics inspired the formation and actualization of different perceptions of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's political heritage as the creator of modern Turkish statehood in political and public spaces. It is assumed that this discourse of collective memory of Atatürk in modern Turkish society develops as a heterogeneous, visualizing and actualizing various viewpoints, which include a nationalist republican perception and its moderate Islamist alternative. The paper analyzes the contribution of intellectuals to the development and transformation of the images of Atatürk in modern historical politics and the emerging memorial culture. The authors state that secular authors defend the concepts of Atatürk, proposed earlier in the ideology of civil Turkish republican nationalism. The research analyzes how opponents of this viewpoint, represented by moderate Islamists, seek to initiate a revision of the image of Atatürk. Moreover, the article shows the role of ideological contradictions in the pluralistic Turkish society, which significantly affect the strategies of intellectuals as participants in historical politics.References
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