Conclusion and Timeline

It is perhaps a quirk in the lieu de mémoire literature that, rather than one culture going to painstaking notes to record its own history and make an archive of it, the Turks in the case of the dervish tradition have recorded their own tradition, compacted them into a digestible portion, and presented the dervish dance for a foreign audience. In this case, we see the "birth" of one lieu de mémoire, not intended for the culture it hailed from. 

The dervish tradition is a long one, stemming back to Remi in the 13th century. Yet the most extreme pushback and acceptance of it has come from the past 100 years - in 1925, with the laws agains the dervish lodges, and in 2008, with the UNESCO acknowledgement of the Mevlevi Sema ceremony as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity. Today we see a growing interest from the outside Turkey for the dance, and so this has led to the increased "intentional commemoration" of the dance. Yet, the intention is aimed at people outside Turkey. Hopefully, with UNESCO's encouragement, the tradition will swing back to be more religiously influenced and less influenced by tourists.