Youth associations as vectors for the dissemination of Turkic ideas between Turkey and Azerbaijan
Stern, Aurélie
Youth associations as vectors for the dissemination of Turkic ideas between Turkey and Azerbaijan - 2023.
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the people of the Republic of Turkey were able to reconnect with those of the other Turkic republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan. The world discovered the term “Turkic world”, stretching “from the Adriatic to the Great Wall of China”, in the words of former Turkish president Süleyman Demirel. This was a period of excitement for (pan) Turkist nationalists whose political project was to found a Turkic union on the basis of cultural, educational and economic elements. But the State is not the only promoter of a more inclusive Turkic world, there is also a fringe of the far right that considers Turkishness in the broadest sense as the central pillar of its political ideology. One of the ways in which it is organised is through Turkist youth associations, structures that bring together young nationalists who have grown up with the internet.
Youth associations as vectors for the dissemination of Turkic ideas between Turkey and Azerbaijan - 2023.
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the people of the Republic of Turkey were able to reconnect with those of the other Turkic republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan. The world discovered the term “Turkic world”, stretching “from the Adriatic to the Great Wall of China”, in the words of former Turkish president Süleyman Demirel. This was a period of excitement for (pan) Turkist nationalists whose political project was to found a Turkic union on the basis of cultural, educational and economic elements. But the State is not the only promoter of a more inclusive Turkic world, there is also a fringe of the far right that considers Turkishness in the broadest sense as the central pillar of its political ideology. One of the ways in which it is organised is through Turkist youth associations, structures that bring together young nationalists who have grown up with the internet.
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