@article{2021:frhlich:das_fehlen,
title = {Das Fehlen einer klaren Linie. Die Ambivalenz türkischer Diplomatie (1939-1945) gegenüber jüdischen Türk*innen im Ausland als Spiegelbild einer widersprüchlichen Nation},
year = {2021},
note = {This article seeks to highlight the ambivalence inherent in Turkish
diplomacy with reference to its attitude towards Jewish Turks living
in Nazi occupied territories and thus being threatened by
extermination policy. Embarking from a microhistoric approach,
focussing on particular Jewish-Turkish citizens either helped or
abandoned by Turkish diplomats, the study outlines a striking
ambivalence and a lack of a common thread in attitudes and willingness
to help. As this study touches on questions of citizenship and its
underlying concepts determining membership to a state and a nation,
particular attention is drawn to Turkey’s struggles for a new
national identity shaped by Kemalism. Linking these concepts to the
attempt to construct a new, homogenuous nation through social
engineering, the study interprets the many-faced diplomatic attitude
as a result of the ambivalence immanent in the new construct of the
Turkish nation, exemplified by tensions between laiklik (laizism) and
milliyetçilik (nationalism).},
journal = {DIYÂR},
pages = {208--231},
author = {Fröhlich, Julia},
volume = {2},
number = {2}
}