Lecturer: Ibrahim Koncak

Student: Aidana Sheralieva IR 4-A

Take home exam: Nation-state building process in the early Turkey and

Kyrgyzstan in 1990.
The two processes - the process of new states and nation-building process - is an important process
for Kyrgyzstan and Turkey. At the heart of this debate - an attempt to consider the characteristics of
self-identification processes in conjunction with the processes of the State and nation-building in
Turkey compare with Kyrgyzstan
The Turkish nation-state has not emerged in 1923 by the declaration of the Republic. Beyond the
republican era, some dynamics occurred during the late Ottoman period, which had important
consequences for this development. Turkish nation-state building process will be examined with
reference to three different three periods: The first one is the Second Constitutional Monarchy (19081914), the second is the First World War (1914-1918) and the last one is the Turkish War of
Independence (1918-1923). Secularization is one of the main faces of the Turkish nation-state building
process. While the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 is accepted as a starting point of
Turkish modernization by some scholars, the preconditions of the new republic must be traced in the
late period of the Ottoman Empire. As one aspect of modernization, secularization has started in the
19th century Ottoman society. Especially in education, law and social life some limited secular
applications occurred during this period, which must be taken as the basis of Turkish modernization
and secularization
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan was faced with the need to build an independent
state. It was a painful process, as being part of the USSR, and possessing all the formal attributes of the
state, Kyrgyzstan, however, has no real sovereignty and could not conduct an independent policy. It is
clear that the political elite of Kyrgyzstan, consisting of the Soviet nomenklatura and accustomed to
receive instructions from the "Center", was at a loss, received an unexpected "independence". She
could not provide adequate answers to the challenges of the time, and society itself was far from the
idea of building a nation-state as the Soviet ideology of "friendship of peoples" and the formation of a
new historical community "Soviet people" had quite a strong impact. Economic modernization in
Kyrgyzstan during the Soviet era, as well as the development of education and culture have created the
prerequisites for the formation of a common identity. However, the idea of the Soviet melting pot has
become an obstacle for the development of national identity and the creation of a full-fledged
state.Until now, in Kyrgyzstan there is a "younger brother syndrome", although since independence has
been almost a quarter-century. Transformed into a title, or, as they say, in the state-forming ethnos,
Kyrgyz no longer perceive themselves as "minority".

Unfortunately, the discussion at the expert level of problems of nationalism, nation-building and
state in Kyrgyzstan during the entire transition period was going quite slowly and intermittently.
compare in this context, a discussion space of Kyrgyzstan with Turkey, notably our backlog. So here
we can see a great difference of developing the nation-state in the early of Turkey with Kyrgyzstan.In
order to be with the same level, Kyrgyzstan need much time. While Turkey was strengthening its
nation state building, Kyrgyzstan was overcoming the collapse of Soviet Union. And while it had got
over, Turkey reinforced its nation-state. In addition in the differences of nation state between these
countries we can mentioned the time of development, and according to common issues it might be that
they have some similarities in culture, religion, even language.Also we can mentioned some similar
conflicts, for instance those conflicts between nations Turkish people with Kurdish, and in Kyrgyzstan
kyrgyz people with uzbeks. Compare with Turkey,there is the lack of own future Kyrgyzstan
project is an obstacle to understanding the places that our country occupies or may occupy in the
contemporary world order. While self-identification processes directed only toward the past.
http://www.insightturkey.com/formation-of-the-turkish-nation-state-1920-1938/book-reviews/7521
http://www.fergananews.com/articles/8852