Taḥavvul-i Shahrvandī: Az 'Uz̤vīyat ta Ḥaq-i Bunyādī: Persian 1403

In Turkey, nationalist groups have difficulty understanding citizens’ demands for rights regarding culture and identity, and insist on viewing citizenship as membership in a club: In today’s politics, this club is called the nation-state. If you have been accepted here, if you have an ID card, you should have no other complaints, they think. The fundamental axis of The Transformation of Citizenship is the idea of ​​seeing citizenship as a set of rights. Bringing together some of the fundamental texts of the field known as “Citizenship Studies” in the literature of Political Science, which has gained increasing importance in the last twenty years, the book examines the meanings that the concept of citizenship has acquired in different national contexts, the relationship of different nationalisms with citizenship, the transformation that the concept has undergone recently, and the opportunities it carries for today, from a historical and comparative perspective. Considering the major political debates and deadlocks of recent years in Turkey, this selection is a timely contribution. It is a timely warning that to grasp the connection between being a good person and being a good citizen, to resolve the existing tensions through democratic methods, and for a "good, just and democratic Turkey" of which all citizens are proud to be members, we must urgently discuss the issue around a concept of citizenship based on rights/freedoms/responsibilities.