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Turkish Nationalism is a political ideology that promotes and glorifies the Turkish People , as either a National , Ethnic or Linguistic Group . Like most forms of Nationalism , it usually puts the interests of the state over all others influences, including religious ones. HISTORY OF TURKISH NATIONALISM Turkish nationalism began with the and Pan-Turkism . The Young Turk revolution which overthrew sultan Abdul Hamid II , allowed Turkish nationalism into power, eventually leading to the Three Pashas control of the late Ottoman government. It is widely believed that the nationalistic leanings of the Young Turks , Enver Pasha in particular, is what led the Committee Of Union And Progress to oversee a series of massacres, mass arrests, and deportations against Anatolia's largest non-Muslim Minority in what is known as the Armenian Genocide during World War I .http://www.armenian-genocide.org/young_turks.html After the collapse of the Ottoman empire, the reformer Mustafa Kemal Atatürk came to power. Atatürk discouraged the Pan-Turkic ambitions of his predecessors. Atatürk introduced Hilaire De Baranton 's Sun Language Theory into Turkish political and educational circles in 1935 , at the high point of attempts to 'cleanse' the Turkish language of foreign influences. Turkish researchers at the time also came up with the idea that Early Sumerians were proto-turks.Anthony Shay, Choreographic Politics, 2002, p.210 MODERN TURKISH NATIONALISM Article 301 of the Turkish penal code, which is perceived as being contrary to ideas of freedom of speech, states: ::''"A person who explicitly insults being a Turk, the Republic or Turkish Grand National Assembly, the penalty to be imposed shall be imprisonment for a term of six months to three years." It also states that "Expressions of thought intended to criticize shall not constitute a crime."'' There have been recent indications1 that Turkey may abandon or modify Article 301, after the embarrassment suffered by some high profile cases. Nationalists within the judicial system, intent on derailing Turkey's full 2006" In 2006 , September 22 , 2006 . --> On 5 April 2007, a parliamentary commission approved a proposal allowing Turkey to block Web sites that are deemed insulting to Atatürk.http://web.archive.org/web/20070501155113/http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/04/06/turkey.youtube.ap/index.html SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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