There is a fashionable consensus among Turkey’s liberal and Islamist commentators—Ahmet Altan among them—that “the Young Turks destroyed the Ottoman Empire, and it is impossible to understand how their mentality still survives in Turkey today.” (1) This line is repeated so reflexively that it has become an article of faith. But it is historically shallow and … Continue reading Why Turkey’s Islamists and Liberals Blame İttihatçılık and Kemalism for Everything?