TY  - JOUR
TI  - DISCUSSION ABOUT THE OTTOMAN IMAGE IN KOSOVO’S HISTORY WRITING: KOSOVO WAR AND SKANDERBEG
AB  - This work offers a study of the Ottoman/Turkish imagery in history textbooks in Kosovo. Theunit of research is the compulsory textbooks prepared for the Albanian students in primary and middleschools in Kosovo in the year 2010-2011. Textbooks, which usually are the first meeting of theindividual with history, are a main subject in educational sciences due to the fact that they are thecompulsory study units which are designed by the states, reflections of the “official” nationalhistories. However, little research has been carried on the history textbooks in Kosovo. This study,which aims to shed light on the negative imageries in these books is inspired by the speeches made bythe former Turkish Education Minister Ömer Dinçer and former Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğluand following reflections and discussion in Kosovo in the year 2011. In this study, 5th Grade historytextbook prepared for Kosovo Turks was also took into account for the comparison.History textbookshave been studied under the light of the aforementioned discussions. Positive and negative images ofthe Ottoman/Turkish image are addressed in this study. Negative descriptions of the Ottomanadministrative system were one of the issues which required more attention. Such descriptive words asoccupier, terror, captures children and despotic for the Ottoman rule were used.
AU  - TUNCER, FATIH FUAT
PY  - 2019
JO  - Akademik Hassasiyetler
VL  - 6
IS  - 11
SN  - 2148-5933
SP  - 127
EP  - 145
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/312598
ER  -