Türk kimliğine bakış: Türkiye'deki ulus ve devlet kimliği ve A.B.D.-Türkiye ilişkilerine etkisi

ABSTRACTLessons in Turkish Identity:National vs. State Identity in Turkey and Implications for U.S.-Turkey RelationsEide, KaralynDepartment of International RelationsSupervisor: Asst. Prof. Nur Bilge CrissMay 2007There is an abundance of oversimplified labels about Turkey, and this thesis attempts,with a strong angle toward history and patterns, to look deeper into Turkish identity. Itwill be argued that Turkey?s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, packaged for the Turks anidentity to which they could subscribe. The various components of this initial identitywill be distinguished.The nation and state of Turkey overlapped nearly perfectly in the republic?s early years,and the goal was for them to stay so, with Turkey being a pure nation-state in the truesense of the word, but a detachment has developed. This is Turkey?s identity crisis, morethan any political or social polarizations in the country today.American ignorance of Turkey?s identity has encouraged Turkish anti-Americanism. Thetwo countries are supposedly `faithful allies? on the political level, but what is understood(or rather misunderstood) on the public level does much relational harm. Mutualignorance of each must be overcome between these two countries. The Kurdish problemwill be discussed as an example of mutual misunderstanding.Keywords: Turkish identity, anti-Americanism, critical security studies, U.S.-Turkey relationship, geopolitics, strategy