All these types of nationalism, since then, have increasingly interfused. Idealist nationalism with its triple crescent flags and its wolf's-head signs, now mixes with any crowd.1 ‘‘Neo’’-nationalism, with its "modern" and ideology-free panorama, exhibits itself through the codes of the pop singer cult and the hedonism of urban youth. Caught between the choices of taking shelter beneath that umbrella or open¬ing their own umbrella, turned upside-down, and getting soaked in the meantime, "Kemalist" "left-wing" nationalism, with its ‘‘ability to inter¬pret,’’ tries to find an eave under which it can give meaning to the "pomp" of the ceremony by calling it secularism. In line with the Olympic creed, ‘‘The most important thing is not to win but to take part,’’ all exist¬ing types of nationalism were present: under the umbrella of the governorship's organiza¬tion (or ‘‘impresarioship’’) and to the familiar strains of the Tenth-Year March, the national¬ism of the state. ![]() October 29, 1995, Republic Day Istanbul, the center of the celebrations and the scene for an "olympiad" of Turkish nationalism.
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