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Transnationalism is not a new phenomenon in Turkish politics. Many Islamists and nationalist groups have promoted transnationalist agendas. Islam-linked transnationalist movements in particular were successful at creating transnational networks. There is, however, an obvious conceptual departure between the configurations of transnationalist and nationalist thought. Ernest Gellner defined nationalism as the creed that political and national units are, or should be, congruent.1 Consistent with this definition, typical nationalist thought is premised on the idea of the territorial state that contains the nation. However, as we will see, a transnational understanding of the nation can encompass not only those who live within a current state but also conationals who live beyond it.
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Bacik, G. (2010). The Nationalist Action Party: The Transformation of the Transnational Right in Turkey. In: New Perspectives on the Transnational Right. Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115521_6
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