Neo-Omanism

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Ahmet Davutoğlu (here on the right with the Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov ) is considered one of the main initiators of the new foreign policy, without the term itself Neoosmanismus to use

Neo-Osmanism ( Turkish Neo-Osmanlıcılık or Yeni Osmanlıcılık ) or Neo-Ottomanism is an ambiguous political catchphrase . Neo-Omanism is also used in a critical sense to express reservations about Turkish foreign policy and furthermore about possible neo-imperial intentions of Turkey, the increased turn of Turkey to Islam and the orientation of foreign policy towards the Arab world and thus towards the former sphere of influence of the Ottoman Empire to rewrite. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu are considered protagonists of neo-Omanism, although he refuses to use the name.

The Ottomanism was originally one in the Tanzimat arisen -time idea that all residents regarded the Ottoman Empire as equal citizens, regardless of religion or ethnicity as opposed to the former organization in Millet .

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According to Kemal Karpat , the term neo-Omanism originally served to describe the Turkish expansion policy during the occupation of Cyprus .

Bassam Tibi defined the term Neo-Omanism in 1997 as "vision". Tibi used it to describe the politics of Erbakan and his attempt to "revive the Great Turkish, Ottoman past". Erbakan is a Neo-Osmanist and a Panturkist at the same time. In Turkey of those years, neo-Ottoman Pan-Turkism, Islamic fundamentalism and Kemalism were in competition with one another.

The Zeitschrift für Internationale Politik defined the term April 2009 as an “ideological current” and used the term to describe Turkey's increased engagement in the Arab world and its turn to Hamas , referring to the Ottoman heritage. The term is used to describe Turkey's growing influence in the Middle East. With its soft power, Turkey is an antithesis to the “hard power” of Iran or Israel . However, the term includes the assumption that "the Turkish Ottomans have ruled the region for several centuries."

According to Gero Erdmann and Olga Herzog from the Hamburg Institute for African Studies, neo-Omanism is primarily used by critics to express reservations about Turkey's more active role in the Middle East and the world. In 2009, Nimet Seker used neo-Omanism in the sense of a return to the Ottoman sphere of influence and the "revival of imperial intentions."

Karen Krüger wrote in 2011 that in neo-Ossmanism “a longing for Islamic superiority is combined with patriotic encouragement”. The return to the Ottoman legacy is an essential part of Turkish cultural policy.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ I am not a neo-Ottoman, Davutoğlu says. In: todayszaman.com. November 25, 2009, archived from the original on December 4, 2013 ; Retrieved July 23, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Kemal H. Karpat: Studies on Ottoman Social and Political History: Selected Articles and Essays. Leiden 2002, p. 524
  3. ↑ Bassam Tibi: The post-Kemalist Turkey between the European Union and the pan-Turkish Islamism
  4. ↑ Change of course with pitfalls
  5. ↑ NZZ of October 27, 2009
  6. ↑ Turkey in Africa: In the Shadow of Neo-Ottomanism? (PDF; 433 kB)
  7. ^ Reorientation of Turkish foreign policy, qantara.de
  8. ^ FAZ of September 16, 2011

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