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There have been a few articles written about Turkey attempting to derive its current power legitimacy narrative by creating this story of an ancient civilizatio
by tsunamifury 4y ago
There have been a few articles written about Turkey attempting to derive its current power legitimacy narrative by creating this story of an ancient civilization being founded within their borders. They have pointed out that this is a common trend among dictators that often stretched credulity to the limit (Sadam and Babylon, Mogabe and ancient southern Egypt, Mussolini and the Roman Empire etc) and many attempt to build up their propaganda with such connections.
Im curious how true that is, but there is a trend.
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- hereforphone 4y agoThose borders didn't exist at the time the "ancient civilization" was constructed. So what's the point?
- DrBenCarson 4y agoIt inspires nationalism which enables dictators
- hereforphone 4y agoErdoğan is a dictator propped up on Islamic sentiment and tradition. He is not a nationalist.
- tsunamifury 4y agoAnd Zimbabwe was no where near the Egyptian Southern Kingdom, and Mussolini came ~1800 years after the height of the Roman Empire. There is no point other than attempting to create a narrative of ancient power & nationalism and aligning it with yourself. Propaganda doesn't operate with logic.
- nyolfen 4y agothe 'point' is being able to say that turkey is the world-historical nexus of civilization, with the earliest urban civilization, which feeds nationalist narratives. every country likes to think they're special.
- pvg 4y agoWhat are some such articles?
- wolverine876 4y agoAnother archeological propaganda technique is to omit from the history the people you don't like and/or who you don't want to have any claim to the territory. Without naming names, one country likes to skip back thousands of years.
- jonylaw 4y ago
- stubish 4y agoThe sites and their importance were known before the current issues in Turkey. Some of the publicity now may well be to encourage nationalism, but the reality is we probably would have been hearing about it 10-20 years earlier if the site hadn't been in a war zone.