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Contemporary approaches within identity studies assume conceptualizations of national thinking in flux. From this standpoint, the study sets forth to explain the temporal nature of national thinking and related conceptualizations of "self" and "other". It initially deals with reflections of various fields of inquiry into the logic of temporality, and then seeks to elaborate this logic by analysing the case of Cyprus, the conflictual phase between the north and south, from the mindset of the Turkish Cypriot community. The fact that the national thinking has altered across the changing conditions in Northern Cyprus leads the author to rely on revealing arguments of the political theory that heed the instrumental and temporal character of "self-other" conceptualizations.

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