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Nationalist projects always look back in time, seeking to demonstrate the ‘linear time of the nation’, its undisputed diachronic presence. Although the timing and the circumstances of the emergence of Greek and Turkish nationalisms are not identical, both projects were informed by the hegemony of Western European modernity and its prevailing attitudes towards the past. As such, both Greek and Turkish nationalisms developed an ambivalent relationship with the past as this past constituted a resource not only for instilling national pride and establishing beyond doubt the diachronic existence of the nation but also validating it in the international arena, making it an acceptable member of the civilised world — by repressing the traces of the ‘backward’ Ottoman Empire from their newly written historiographies.
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Sofos, S.A., Özkirimli, U. (2009). ‘Colonising’ The Past: History and Memory in Greece and Turkey. In: Carvalho, S., Gemenne, F. (eds) Nations and their Histories. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245273_4
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