Nazif MandaciMandacı, Nazif2025-10-06202229462681, 294626732946-267310.1007/978-3-030-97637-8_72-s2.0-105009827889https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105009827889&doi=10.1007%2F978-3-030-97637-8_7&partnerID=40&md5=e44d5c2b164fc053a122463e25f9d454https://gcris.yasar.edu.tr/handle/123456789/8880https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97637-8_7In the early 2000s the Turkish liberal elite who was endorsed particularly by democratic reforms wholeheartedly supported Turkey’s bid for a greater role in its near abroad by re-narrating the Ottomanist view. They thought that if they adeptly highlighted the already embedded references to cosmopolitanism and the ideal of co-existence in it they would be able to won the so-called Pax Ottomana a universal meaning among the nations in Turkey’s surroundings. This study holds that the first decade of the 2000s was a temporal regnum “a moment” whereby the historical Ottoman heritage in the Balkans which Turkey continued to restore with full enthusiasm might have simultaneously contributed to this intellectual enterprise. © 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Englishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessBook Part