Populist Nostalgia: Yearning for the Ottoman Past in Turkey

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In the last decade and a half, Turkey has been gripped by both nostalgia for the Ottoman past and an authoritarian government that has harnessed nostalgia to strengthen its own power. What began as a playful, cosmopolitan phenomenon--manifested in fashion, food, and the success of the TV series The Magnificent Century, about ...