Secularity and religiosity: keystones of Turkish national identity

Abstract

According to many experts Turkish National Federation experiences crisis of its national identity. The article concerns the problem of secular and religious balance in Turkish nationalism. Special attention is attached to Turkey as a project and Turkey as a process, war factor in a birth of the nation, national idea reproduction, Islam nationalization and nationalism Islamisation.

Keywords

• war
• identity
• secularity
• religiosity
• Turkey
• nationalism
• project
• Islam
• Kemalism
• borders