Ahmet Taşğın, Kalemle Resmedilen Alevilik, Çizgi Kitabevi Yayınları, Konya, 2019

Nationalism, Religion, and Minorities from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey

“…At the outset, the leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which led the Revolution, seemed attached to the Ottomanist ideal of İttihad-ı Anasır (Unity of Elements), that is, the unity of all ethnoreligious communities in the Empire, whether they were Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. 15 This attitude was, partly, a reaction to the Islamist policies of Abdülhamid II. Nevertheless, Turkish nationalism became one of the major intellectual and ideological trends from the beginning of the Second Constitutional Period.…”