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CALIPHATE DISCUSSIONS IN TURKEY
Introduction After a court decision that made the 1934 Presidential decree void, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan successfully converted Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) into a mosque from a museum.[1] The decision was welcomed and celebrated
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MEDIA AS A STIMULATING FORCE IN NATION-BUILDING PROCESS
In my previous articles, I have covered interrelated topics. I wrote about the issues of state formation, nationalism theories, nation-building and citizenship relationship and nation-building and identity formation. My current article is the last
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STATE FORMATION AS A CULTURAL ESTABLISHMENT
This article attempts to analyze state formation process from a cultural perspective. It aims to shed a light upon the main theoretical approaches concerning state formation which do not ignore the immaterial and cultural
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