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Turks’ Brothers

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The public policies towards the Kurds, and for that matter towards any sub-group of the population, have been shaped primarily by the state’s approach to matters of nationalism. In the Turkish case, one observed a state creating its own nation, and not vice versa. Within the context of this particular nation-building process, the kind of nationalism that the state chose to adopt would have been the consequence of the preferences and priorities of the state itself, and not that of one element of society or a particular constellation of the societal elements. The Turkish Republic inherited from the Ottoman Empire a tradition of not pursuing ethnic nationalism, and it remained loyal to that tradition.

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    Metin Heper (Professor of Politics)

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Heper, M. (2007). Turks’ Brothers. In: The State and Kurds in Turkey. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230593602_6

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