Temko Popov

Temko Popov
Meclis-i Âyan üyesi
Görev süresi 25 Kasım 1909 - 22 Ekim 1914
Hükümdar	V. Mehmed
Kişisel bilgiler
Doğum	1855 Ohri, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu
Ölüm	1929 Ohri, Sırp, Hırvat ve Sloven Krallığı
Vatandaşlığı	Osmanlı İmparatorluğu

Temko Popov (Kiril: Темко Попов) ya da Temko Popoviç Efendi (1855-1929), Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Makedon yanlısı bir aktivist ve Sırp ulusal işçisiydi. Gençliğinde, sonradan Sırp milliyetçiliğine dönüşen bir tür belirsiz Makedon kimliğini benimsemiştir.^[1]

1. ^ ...In other words, Macedonianness is a direct consequence or, more precisely, construct of the competing Balkan ideologies. Marinov provides a few examples of how this Macedonianness found expression. However, these examples yield only one conclusion: it is not quite clear what Macedonianness means because all the Macedonian intellectuals defined it and expressed it in a different way, including Grupčević and Popović. According to Marinov, “there are historical personalities from late Ottoman Macedonia whose identity largely ‘floated’ between the Serbian and the Bulgarian national option,” and between them appeared the third Macedonian option, which was used by Serbian diplomatic circles as “a possible counterweight to Bulgarian influence in Macedonia.” Stojan Novaković concretely assumed it would be much better to use the already present vague sense of this Macedonianness, and turn, harness and mold it to Serbian advantage, instead of attempting to impose Serbian nationhood directly upon Macedonians. This was obviously the case with the two owners of Carigradski glasnik, who turned from the Greek education they had been given and their vague sense of Macedonianness to Serbian nationhood... For more see: Klara Volarić, Forgotten Istanbul-based Paper in the Service of Ottoman Serbs, 1895-1909” (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Central European University, Budapest, 2014), p. 94.