Udomljavanje kemalizma: sukobljeni muslimanski narativi o Turskoj u međuratnoj Jugoslaviji
Domesticating Kemalism: Conflicting Muslim Narratives about Turkey in Interwar Yugoslavia

Summary/Abstract: The article seeks to explore Yugoslav Muslims’ view of Turkey in the interwar period. More precisely, the aim is to show how imagining Turkey was a truly transnational venture - that is to say, conflicting discourses on Turkey and its inhabitants were fashioned through interactions among people, goods, and ideas largely happening across, and beyond, state borders. The text shows how shaping and reshaping discourses on Turkey were affected by shifts in power relations at multiple levels, in particular inside the Muslim community, at Yugoslav level, and at international level. Lastly, the article highlights how Muslim notables produced representations of Kemalist Turkey that were essentially designed for local political circumstances, both at Yugoslav-state and Muslim-communal levels. Trans/inter-national and local at the same time, the act of imagining Turkey thus became a practice of reflection on several thorny issues affecting Muslim individual and collective trajectories, and of expressing anxieties and expectations concerning the place of Muslims in a post-Ottoman world.

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