Ozer, AsyaOzcetin, Burak2024-07-182024-07-1820241468-38571743-9639https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2024.2324561https://hdl.handle.net/11411/7534This study presents a multimodal discourse analysis of three historical videos produced by the Presidency of the Republic of Turkiye Directorate of Communications. The Directorate, chiefly operating as a partisan bureaucratic-cum-political apparatus of the ruling political party in Turkey, the Justice and Development Party, produces videos to recast the history of Turkey in line with the ruling party's neo-Ottomanist, nationalist, militarist, and Islamist agenda. These three videos reviewed refer to the discursive building blocks of the AKP's so-called Islamic populist worldview in recent years: the glorious Ottoman past, accumulation and glorification of military power, and a holy cause. The historical repository used in the videos reasserts the loneliness of Turkey, the utmost belief in and dedication to the nation's leader, Turkey's emergence as a regional power, and the primacy of the nation's will. The article discusses the authoritarian and exclusionary implications of the misuse of history by official agencies.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessAdalet Ve Kalkinma PartisiDirectorate Of CommunicationsNeo-OttomanismIslamismMultimodal Discourse AnalysisPopular-CultureJusticeMemoryArticle2-s2.0-8518690868110.1080/14683857.2024.2324561Q1N/AWOS:001173537400001