Özet:

Nationalism, which was not systematically addressed before the 20th century, was only considered as an academic subject in the 1920s and was studied in more objective perspectives. It is at this point the relationship of nationalism with the processes of modernization that burns the debate about nationalism. In these discussions, the opinion of the nations and nationalism is the structures of the modern age. Nationalism, secularization, urbanization, the establishment of central states, industrialization, and other processes are not independent of this point of view, the nations only become a sociological reality in the age of nationalism and the nationalism creates the nations. In Turkey, nationalism has become a leading ideology in the process of modernization, forming the ground of modernization from Ottoman to the Republic. Nationalism, which became the official ideology of the Republic, has later continued its existence with its various versions. The purpose of this article is to make a preliminary reading of Turkish-Turkish Nationalism in the light of modernist theories that address nationalism from a sociological perspective.