From the early Attaturk years, Turkish radio broadcasting was
seen as a great hope for sealing the national identity of the new
Turkish Republic. Since the inaugural broadcast in 1927, the
national elite designed radio broadcasting to represent the "voice
of a nation." Here Meltem Ahiska reveals how radio broadcasting
actually showed Turkey's uncertainty over its position in relation
to Europe. While the national elite wanted to build their own
Turkish identity, at the same time they desired recognition from
Europe that Turkey was now a Westernized modern country. Ahiska
shows how these tensions played out over the radio in the
conflicting depictions and discrepancies between the national elite
and "the people," "cosmopolitan" Istanbul and "national" Ankara,
and men and women (especially in Radio drama). Through radio
broadcasting we can see how Occidentalism dictated the Turkish
Republic's early history and shaped how modern Turkey saw
itself.
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