ABSTRACT
Turkish immigrants have been living in Germany now for more than forty years. One might expect that any nationalist feelings Turkish immigrants might have towards their homeland would weaken over the years. Among Turkish people in Germany, however, there are still many who tend towards ultra-nationalist views. Throughout the generations, the extensity and the intensity of the relationship between the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) in Turkey and Turks in Germany has not declined. In this paper, I will focus on the effect of the ulkucu1 movement on the construction of a transnational space between Germany and Turkey. Transnational space, as Thomas Faist puts it, denotes 'relatively stable, enduring and dense sets of ties reaching beyond and across the borders of sovereign states' (Faist, 2000, p. 4). The ulkucu movement in Germany should not be seen as a loose and short-lived network of Turkish people. Since it is an institutionalised and longstanding movement, it can be included in the category of political communities and organisations.2
