On the night of July 15, 2016, the Republic of Turkey experienced yet another military coup attempt. However, this attempt failed, mainly due to civilian protest and casualties. Their sacrifice, according to the Turkish state, led to the creation of a new national celebration in Turkey, the “Democracy and National Unity Day.” Following the growing interest of historians in the field of national celebrations, this paper examines the creation of this holiday. It argues that the AKP government used this new holiday to shape the Turkish collective national memory and to introduce a national celebration that does not revolve around the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who symbolizes the secular camp in Turkey, but rather around the Justice and Development Party government and its more traditional and religious ideology, in the guise of celebrating Turkish democracy.

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土耳其“民主与民族团结日”：新国庆节的发明

2016 年 7 月 15 日晚，土耳其共和国再次发生军事政变企图。然而，这次尝试以失败告终，主要是由于平民抗议和人员伤亡。根据土耳其政府的说法，他们的牺牲导致土耳其设立了一个新的全国庆祝活动，即“民主和民族团结日”。随着历史学家对国家庆典领域的兴趣日益浓厚，本文探讨了这个节日的创建。它认为，正义与发展党政府利用这个新的节日来塑造土耳其的集体民族记忆，并引入了一个不围绕象征土耳其世俗阵营的土耳其共和国创始人穆斯塔法·凯末尔·阿塔图尔克（Mustafa Kemal Atatürk）的全国性庆祝活动，而是围绕着正义与发展党政府及其更为传统和宗教的意识形态，