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Ottoman Propaganda and Turkish Identity

Literature in Turkey During World War I

by (author) Erol Köroglu

Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Initial publish date
Sep 2007
Category
General, World War I
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781845114909
    Publish Date
    Sep 2007
    List Price
    $188.95

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Throughout World War I the Entente Powers (France, Britain, Russia and later the USA) directed widespread efforts towards the generation of propaganda as a weapon of war, with devastating effect. However, in the underdeveloped and multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire, the Turkish intelligentsia could not produce adequate propaganda to support the war effort. As the war unfolded, writers abandoned their initial attempts at propaganda and turned instead to the task of defining a national identity. In this new reassessment of Turkish literature and propaganda in World War I, Erol Köroglu argues the Ottoman-Turkish intelligentsia used the conditions created by the war to eliminate the deficiencies in national culture and build a Turkish identity, a project inherited from the pre-war years.

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Contributor Notes

Erol Köroglu is currently visiting scholar at the ""Europe in Middle East, Middle East in Europe Program"", Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin.