Against Turkey's historic progression

The biggest problem for Turkey is that we have not yet been able to achieve the sociological and sentimental integration to the extent required by the definition of a "nation." For this reason, we become polarized very easily and very sharply. 

Here, even on the topic of the curriculum, we do not speak with the language of pedagogy but with the language of ideology. The new suggestions for the curriculum are also similar. 

Conservatives generally criticize the republic's "national building" project, as if the multinational empire could have been continued. The target of forming a nation was correct; what was wrong were the authoritarian practices. 

As a matter of fact, building a nation was also the yearning of one of the last Ottoman sultans, Abdul Hamid II. He had recognized the difficulties of holding a multinational empire together. He was saying that "Our ancestors who conquered nations had neglected to connect such different societies under one law and a common sentiment." 

He was expecting the parliament to do this. The unification of law case in the political reforms made in the Ottoman state in 1839; the chamber of deputies in the constitutional monarchy, and the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) in the republic were all institutions with the same aim: the formation of an integrated and unified nation through political participation and a shared legitimacy. 

We have entered the 20th century with major disasters and losses because of several factors such as being extremely belated in industrialization and education, wars and European colonialism. 

Nevertheless, again, the fundamental concepts of building a nation such as the "national will and parliament" were gained thanks to the constitutional...