Discovering Our Past
Are “We” Breaking Taboos? Reconstructing Atatürkism and the Past in Contemporary Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7933838 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Berna Yazıcı (0000-0001-9843-7355, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Pages | 1-30 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Perspectives on Turkey (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-6346 • E-ISSN: 1305-3299 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0896634600003587 |
| OpenAlex | W2228291003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
In 1993, a documentary film titled Sarı Zeybek, which narrates the last days of Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, appeared on a private TV channel in Turkey. Having roused considerable interest, the film reappeared on screens a few more times and later was made into a video. Can Dündar, the producer of the film, writes: When I was a child, I could not understand why the statues of Atatürk were put so high, that as I tried to stare at them, my neck would start to hurt. I could not know why he would always appear alone in his pictures .... Atatürk was a statue far away and a lonely picture .... With this film, in which we narrate his last 300 days, this statue came down to earth. We could touch him .... We loved not the tough hero of poems, but this emotional man whose eyes would fill with tears as he watched the celebrations of the Republic from his window. Unfortunately, they have not introduced us to this man in schools. Sarı Zeybek is a brave step for this late introduction [on the back cover of the tape
Ancient history · Art · HERO · Literature · Poetry · Statue · The Republic · Visual arts · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society
How Societies Remember
Foundational Fictions
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey
The Invention Of Tradition
Commemorations
The Politics of Memory
Identity and its Discontents
Uses and Abuses of “State and Civil Society” in Contemporary Turkey
Feminism in Turkey
Becoming The “Other” as a Muslim in Turkey
The Ambiguities of Authenticity in Latin America
The Effects of Truth
Rhetoric of Motives
Purity and Exile
Lords of the Lebanese Marches
Finding a Place for Islam
Everyday metaphors of power
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |