Y. Doğan Çetinkaya. The Young Turks and the Boycott Movement: Nationalism, Protest and the Working Classes in the Formation of Modern Turkey. London, New York: I. B. Tauris, 2014

Authors : Erol Ülker

Pages : 135-137

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Publication Date : 2016-12-15

Article Type : Bookreview

Abstract :Y. Doğan Çetinkaya’s The Young Turks and the Boycott Movement. Nationalism, Protest and the Working Classes in the Formation of Modern Turkey, is among the recent studies that address the rise of Turkish nationalism in the late Ottoman Empire. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the boycotts and protest movements that emerged after the Constitutional Revolution of 1908, and discusses how such mass actions became "the most typical tools in the repertoire of the early Muslim/Turkish nationalism” (s. 2)    
Keywords : nationalism, the Young Turks