Remembering Revolutionary-Liberationist Movements: Entangled Mobilizations, Selfless Sacrifices, and Secularized Solidarities

This case study investigates transnational configurations of altruism, sacrifice, and solidarity during the 1965–1975 period. The empirical research seeks to capture transnationalisms surrounding Turkey-Palestine social movement stories. The analysis excavates “quantological” aspects of the subject matter based on two umbrella terms: “Turkey’s Revolutionist Movement (TRM)” and “Palestine’s Liberationist Movement (PLM).” In order to make better sense of transnationalisms in TRM-PLM interactions, pragmatic-quantic concepts are applied. Within this composite framework, self-serving and alter-oriented altruisms, and liberal and socialist solidarities are reformulated. Emotional narratives, affective memories, and relational imageries are analyzed by revisiting altruistic popular experiences and sacrificial public commitments across Turkey-Palestine borders. The first TRM group arrived Damascus in March 1968. This group kept one of the longest and closest contacts with the PLM leadership. Some of them even developed personal ties with top Fatah leaders including Yasser Arafat. Overall, the chapter provides a pragmatic-quantic inquiry on TRM-PLM encounters in the midst of 1967 and 1973 wars. As movement narratives expose, the 1968 spring reshapes collective memories and imageries beyond transnational space–time. Revolutionary-liberationist solidarity experiences display significant quantal implications such as entanglement, indeterminacy, and non-locality encompassing the past, present, and future contexts of secular altruisms and selfless sacrifices.