Cataloged from PDF version of article.Thesis (M.S.): Bilkent University, Department of Political Science and Administration, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2018.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-100).This thesis analyzes the construction of the ideal Turk images by the
television dramas Payitaht: Abdülhamid II and Mehmetçik Kût-ül
Amâre in relation to the production of collective memory. They are
examined within the framework of JDP s nationalism project, in
particular the similarities and differences of the JDP s ideal image
from the initial concept of ideal citizen constructed during the years of
the early Republic. The aim of this thesis is to show what kind of an
ideal citizen the JDP government constructs and implies it through revisiting
the existing elements of the ideal citizen which exists in
Turkish collective memory in relation to their nationalism project. The
characteristics of the represented ideal image is analyzed based on the
four most repeated notions in both series. The ideal Turk s
understanding of what their national duties are, their relationship
withIslam, the West and the internal others have been determined as categories of analysis.After that, the changes and continuities between
this narration and the official narration that is constructed during the
first years of the new Republic is acknowledged with relation to the
present government s doctrine.by Zeynep Geylan
