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Article: Black Turks, white Turks: on the three requirements of Turkish citizenship.(Report)
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- Insight Turkey
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Long before the White Turks/Black Turks distinction gained currency, the dominant academic metaphor for the analysis of Turkish society was based around the Center and Periphery model, introduced to the Turkish context by Serif Mardin in his "Center-Periphery Relations: A Key to Turkish Politics," an article published in Daedalus (1973). Mardin's discussion revolved around the challenge of integrating the periphery (Anatolia) to the center, a persistent problem facing power holders from the late Ottoman period through to the Republic. We know that Mardin borrowed the term from Edward Shils's The Constitution of Society. The conceptual origins of the distinction, while not ...