Der Verfasser ist bei der Verfolgung einer archaologischen Problematik auf ein Gebiet gefuhrt worden, zu dessen kompetenter Behandlung ihm die meisten Vor- aussetzungen fehlen. Sich trotzdem auf diese Untersuchung einzulassen, schien gerechtfertigt, wei! das Problem erst yom archaologischen Standpunkt aus seine eigentliche Scharfe bekommt. Allerdings muBte sich der Verfasser auf leicht zugangliche Quellen beschranken und konnte um des Zusammenhangs willen auch auf Materialien aus zweiter Hand nicht verzichten. Das letzte Wort wird naturlich beim Fachmann der Kunstgeschichte bleiben, der die Denkmaler und die literarischen Zeugnisse besser uberblickt. Auch lieBe sich fast jede der hier angefan- genen Betrachtungen betrachtlich vertiefen. Zeitliche Unterbrechungen der Arbeit und unterschiedliche Bibliotheksverhalt- nisse haben zu U nebenheiten in der Darstellung gefuhrt, die sich leider nicht mehr glatten lieBen. Fur die Nachweise konnte nicht immer auf die Standardwerke zuruckgegriffen werden. Zahlreiche Bucher standen nur kurzfristig zur Verfugung, so daB eine Kontrolle der Zitate und der referierten Meinungen nicht moglich war.

The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes to link the notion of the Other to the concept of national identity. The founding elite took up a massive project of social engineering that now required the amplification of Turkishness as the founding concept of the new nation-state. This concept was shaped by the construction of various Others as a backdrop, and for Turkey in many ways, the Arab in his keffiyeh and traditional garb constituted the ultimate Other. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Ilkim Buke Okyar examines the development of Turkish national identity from the 1908 constitutional revolution to the inclusion of Alexandretta in 1939, using the lens of contemporary political cartoons. Okyar brings the everyday production of nationalist discourse into the mainstream political and historical narrative of modern Turkey. In doing so, Okyar shows how the cartoon press became one of the most important agents in the construction, maintenance, and mobilization of Turkish nationalism, reinforcing a perceived image of the Arab that was haunted forever by its ethnic and religious origins.

The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes to link the notion of the Other to the concept of national identity. The founding elite took up a massive project of social engineering that now required the amplification of Turkishness as the founding concept of the new nation-state. This concept was shaped by the construction of various Others as a backdrop, and for Turkey in many ways, the Arab in his keffiyeh and traditional garb constituted the ultimate Other. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Ilkim Buke Okyar examines the development of Turkish national identity from the 1908 constitutional revolution to the inclusion of Alexandretta in 1939, using the lens of contemporary political cartoons. Okyar brings the everyday production of nationalist discourse into the mainstream political and historical narrative of modern Turkey. In doing so, Okyar shows how the cartoon press became one of the most important agents in the construction, maintenance, and mobilization of Turkish nationalism, reinforcing a perceived image of the Arab that was haunted forever by its ethnic and religious origins.