@article{2024:bartholom:negotiatin,
title = {Negotiating the Borders of a Turkic World: The Journal Türk Amacı (1942–1943)},
year = {2024},
note = {The journal Türk Amacı, published in Istanbul between 1942 and 1943,
was – according to      its subtitle – intended as a ‘propagator
of Turkic cultural unity.’ As such, it is an outstanding     
example of the discourse of the time and offers interesting insights
into how the editor and      the authors constructed and negotiated
the borders of the ‘Turkic world’ they had in mind. In      a
close qualitative discourse analysis, which also considers the
political and social conditions      of that time, this article will
show how debates about the history, language, literature, and culture 
    of the Turkic people(s) and neighbouring communities – as well
as the existing ideologies      of Pan-Turkism – influenced the
journal. To this end, it focusses on how Turkic culture and     
geographical aspects are combined, how the various (sub)groups are
represented in the contributions and how the authors deal with issues
of language(s). Through their selection of topics and the wording
used, the articles in the journal constructed a more or less unified
cultural and linguistic space, a ‘Turkic world,’ that largely
ignored the question of real existing borders.},
journal = {DIYÂR},
pages = {47--65},
author = {Bartholomä, Ruth and Gasimov, Zaur},
volume = {5},
number = {1}
}