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Moving in from the Margins? Turkey in Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Caglar Keyder
Caglar Keyder*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Bogazici University and Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton
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Abstract

Turkey's historical intimacy with Europe has always spelled ambivalence between inclusion and exclusion. Religious difference was an issue from the start, but this did not stop the Ottomans from recruiting Byzantine princes and Venetian grandees to serve their new state. The sultans in those early centuries claimed the Byzantine mantle and saw their realm as the New Rome, a universal empire in the making. Indeed, European attitudes betrayed an acceptance of these claims as well; it was only after the 16th century, and especially with the Reformation, that the Ottomans emerged as an irrecoverable other.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , May 2006 , pp. 72 - 81
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2006

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