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Reconquistando Constantinopla

Políticas de memória e patrimônio bizantino na Turquia de Erdogan

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ID22141585
AuthorsHermano Do Amaral Pinto Neto (0000-0001-6609-2620, Universidade de São Paulo, corresponding author)
Year2026
Volume14
Issue17
Pages97-120
Publication date2026-03-19
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMalala (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2446-5240 • E-ISSN: 2446-5240
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/issn.2446-5240.malala.2025.235273
OpenAlexW7143034103
LanguageEN

The reconversion of the Hagia Sophia was one of the high points of the instrumentalization of the politics of memorialization to achieve political ends in Turkey. In light of this event, this article aims to analyze the relationship between Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Neo-Ottoman populism and Byzantine heritage in the present Turkish society. The subjugation of Byzantine memory is a basic trait of Turkish right-wing populism, founded on the glorification of its imperial past and on Islamism. Combating the fictitious Byzantine enemy, in discourse, becomes associated with combating the West, externally, and the Kemalist opposition, internally. Erdogan seeks to legitimize himself through the implementation of this populist agenda

Byzantine architecture · Memorialization · Politics · Populism · Turkish · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Media Discourse and Social Analysis · Turkey's Politics and Society

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