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El artículo discurre sobre las razones posibles que incitaron el genocidio armenio de 1915-1923 por el Imperio Otomano. El autor comenta sobre la prevalencia de nacionalismo de los otomanas así como el sentido de xenofobia ante los armenios. También se considera la cuestión del genocidio como un acto de limpieza étnica o un evento premeditado.

The background of Turkish Republic lies behind the Turkish Revolution. Right before the revolution Mustafa Kemal was just one of the Ottoman generals.The First World War was the most influential element that helped Mustafa Kemal's name to heard. What made it possible for Mustafa Kemal to achieve the nationalist movement was that he joined all the commanders in Anatolia to his political position. Mustafa Kemal practiced his subsequent political activities on the basis of Turkish Grand National Assembly. At the end of a series of battles, Mustafa Kemal attained a final victory in the face of Greek army. After that Turkey was invited to peace talks on October 27, 1922. During the Lausanne Conference, Straits, Patriarchate, Mosul, Exchanges of population, war compensation issues were all handled and somehow solved. Kemal set up a political party called Halk Firkasi (People's Party) . Disregarding the assaults of his opponents, he took heeds of political project in his mind. Turkish Revolution is one of the successors of Enlightenment Age ideology. Kemalist elite applied successfully great French Revolution's ideals, about after a two-century delay. Kemalists actualized a bourgeois democratic revolution under the leadership of petty bourgeoisie intellectuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En paralelo a la negociación conflictiva en torno a la definición y al sentimiento de la nación a nivel estratégico, las repercusiones de la globalización, y sobre todo de las negociaciones con la Unión Europea, complican la cuestión de las fronteras y, por consiguiente, la cuestión de la unidad en el contexto turco ("siempre en peligro", según las elites nacionalistas-kemalistas). El discurso nacionalista se consume a nivel popular pero, más que simple consumo o pura producción estratégica, se constituye como una producción de diferentes nacionalismos en las tácticas de la vida cotidiana. Este artículo aborda de este modo las nuevas producciones nacionalistas, profundizando en las tácticas que van de la supervivencia a la subversión o nuevos ritos religiosos en una situación de incertidumbres y de ambivalencias propiciadas por la globalización, por un nuevo encuentro con Occidente y por la desaparición de las fronteras. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo ofrece una amplia reseña del libro "A Shameful Act. The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility," escrito por Taner Akçam. El libro enfoca en las decisiones y acciones de la clase política otomana que causaron el genocidio armenio. Se examinan varios aspectos que contribuyeron al genocidio, como el nacionalismo e imperialismo.

In the context of the negotiation process for Turkey's accession to the EU, the author delves into the country's current situation and its condition as a bridge. She focuses on the question of Islam and modernity, taking as her point of departure the example of Kayseri, a city and region in Central Anatolia, which is dynamic and productive without having lost its cultural and religious values for this reason. Among these values, she highlights an obstacle which distances the country from an economic rapprochement with the EU, namely the role of women in the economy, although she underscores the idea that everything indicates that this necessary change could occur soon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Might Turkey be thought of as a model of democratic Government for the rest of the Islamic world? Can Turkey be a lighthouse of democracy in the Islamic world? The objective of this work is to try, to answer these questions, and for this it focuses on two interrelated factors, which the author believes to be fundamental, in order to try to understand Turkey's domestic policy: "nationalism" and "religion", two elements that have been the object of strong debate in Turkey at the turn of the century, in the framework of the two last elections, held in April 1999 and November 2002. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]