Author
Mahieddine, Nahas Mohamed
Publication Place
Oran, Algeria -
Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Type
Book
Language
ara,eng,fra
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID
ISSN: 1111-2050, EISSN: 2253-0738, DOI: 10.4000/insaniyat.6290
Record ID
cdi_emarefa_primary_1314613
Library Location
Proquest Central
Notes
Algeria's membership of the Ottoman Empire for more than three centuries creates a complex feeling towards the Turks, a feeling difficult to qualify due to the circumstances which brought the latter to this country and the evolution of the policy of the Regency authorities towards the local population. Nevertheless, the colonial invasion favors the formation of an image of past Turkish power and the Turkish state of the early 20th century at the level of the collective imagination of Algerians where both reality and fantasy mix. This psychological attitude in fact reflects the conscious or unconscious idea of favoring community belonging to better distinguish oneself politically and culturally in relation to French colonial power. When realism and the evolution of the country's situation as well as that of ideas lead Algerians to the construction of a national movement which defines Algerianness from a rational political discourse while leading cultural and social action preparing society to free itself from colonial power, the elite and the leaders who advocate this liberation nevertheless continue to look towards those they feel are closest not only from a sociological or cultural point of view but also politically, particularly when political action is the expression of a nationalism carried out against those who strive to deny it. It is in this perspective and in this sense that we can observe in the main Algerian leaders, at least for a moment, if not an admiration for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, at least an example of which certain aspects deserve a particular look. This study is therefore an attempt to answer the question that it seems appropriate to ask about the relationship between the Algerian national movement and the political thought of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by attempting to show how, from a privileged relationship between Algeria and Turkey, a link was grafted between the political ideas of the founder of modern Turkey and those of some personalities of the national movement in Algeria.
Görüntüle
Insaniyat, 2004, Vol.8 (25-26), p.123-142
