15 Aralık 2025 Dergi makalesi Açık Erişim

Dolgun, Uğur

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{
  "DOI": "10.52108/2757-5942.6.3.6", 
  "abstract": "<p>This article examines how European discourses that othered the &ldquo;Turk&rdquo; were taken up by Balkan nationalisms and translated into violent policies during the transition to nation-states from the late nineteenth century onward. It shows how a Europe-made adversarial frame legitimated this shift and fed practices of forced displacement and mass killing. Methodologically, the study draws on a systematic review of the literature and comparative readings in historiography. Backed by Western and Russian powers, separatist movements targeted the Ottoman legacy, dismantled a long-standing multi-confessional order, and normalised a security politics that accelerated ethnic homogenisation. The findings indicate that claims to legitimacy advanced in step with waves of violence, fracturing cultural and social continuities. Building the post-imperial political architecture on this basis kept the regional order brittle well into the twentieth century, helped trigger genocides, and left durable effects that marginalised minority communities. Without a careful reckoning with this trajectory, Europe&rsquo;s self-narrative will remain partial and misleading</p>", 
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Dolgun", 
      "given": " U\u011fur"
    }
  ], 
  "container_title": "Sosyolojik Ba\u011flam Dergisi", 
  "id": "286524", 
  "issue": "3", 
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2025, 
        12, 
        15
      ]
    ]
  }, 
  "language": "eng", 
  "page": "503-528", 
  "title": "Constructing Turkish Identity as the \"Other\": The Erasure of a Civilization in Balkan Memory", 
  "type": "article-journal", 
  "volume": "6"
}