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TURKISH LITERATURE

The articulation of Islamic themes and values in Turkish literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries differs from that of the preceding era, for it occurs in the context of a struggle for survival and redefinition of selfhood and state. Turkish-speaking Muslims of a weakened and shrinking Ottoman Empire (c. 1300-1918) undertook the westernizing restructurings

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TURKEY

One of the successor states created from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire after World War 1, Turkey became the first secular state in the Muslim world. The new state in Asia Minor (or Anatolia) was declared a republic in October 1923 after the defeat of the Greek army and the sultan’s forces in a

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