Introduction 1. The State-Minority relations and Nationhood: The Question of Inclusion/ Exclusion 2. Patterns of Legal and Ethnic Inclusion/ Exclusion: A Conceptual Framework of Nationhood 3. Imperial Ottoman into a Republican Turk: A Brief History of Transition 4. Anatomy of a Nationhood: The Essentials of Post-Ottoman Turkishness 5. New World Order, Weak State, and the Emergence of Ottomanism and Ottoman Homeland (Vatan) 6. Post World War I Order, Nationalist Elites and the making of Monolithic Turkishness 7. The Post-Cold War World, Decline of the Kemalists, and Back to the Ottoman Future of Unity in Diversity 8. Conclusion: Ontological (In)Security, the State and Minorities References
Serhun Al is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. His main research interests include the politics of identity, ethnic conflict, and security studies within the context of Turkish and Kurdish politics. He is the co-editor of a recent book entitled Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests (Palgrave, 2018).