‘Am I a terrorist or an educator?’ Turkish asylum seekers narratives on education rights violations after a crackdown following the 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey

Aydın, Hasan; Avincan, Koksal

doi:10.1080/14767724.2021.2017264

Cited by 10 publications

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“…Such a process of secularization is not unilinear, but processes of religious self-assertion, like RF, are also a result of modernization and go alongside or against secularization (Riesebrodt, 2005). A fundamentalist worldview is not restricted to individuals who support the current government, which could suggest that with the control of education, press, and religious infrastructure (Aydin & Avincan, 2021;Çokgezen, 2022), the Turkish government was presumably able to spread RF beyond their supporters (Bashirov & Lancaster, 2018;Özpek & Yaşar, 2018). With the same mechanisms (Yardımcı-…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To maintain power, Erdoğan repressed against those who do not support him and reward those who support him and the course of his party, the AKP (Yilmaz et al, 2020). For example, Erdoğan restricted freedom of education (Aydin & Avincan, 2021;Babacan, 2020), press (Akser, 2018;Karatas & Saka, 2017;Reporters without borders, 2018), and state-led religious infrastructure (Babacan, 2020;Çokgezen, 2022;Öztürk, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Religious Fundamentalism is Positively Associated with Feeling Privileged: Findings from a Representative Turkish Quota Sample

Demmrich¹,

Hanel²

2023

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Previous research established that people who are or feel more privileged tend to be less religiously fundamentalist. However, in the present research we predicted this association to be reversed when political leaders such as governments are promoting and incentivizing (religious) fundamentalism. Using Turkey as an example, we found support for our hypothesis in a Muslim sample (N = 736) representative for age, gender, education-level ethnicities, and urbanity: Individuals, who feel more privileged – i.e., less deprived – were more fundamentalist, even after controlling for a range of other variables that were previously associated with fundamentalism including conspiracy beliefs, personality, and sociodemographic variables. This negative association between deprivation and religious fundamentalism was not mediated by conspiracy beliefs. Interestingly, the associations of the control variables such as authoritarianism and conspiracy beliefs with religious fundamentalism mostly replicated previous research. Implications are discussed.

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Religious Fundamentalism is Positively Associated with Feeling Privileged: Findings from a Representative Turkish Quota Sample

Demmrich¹,

Hanel²

2023

Preprint

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“…In a qualitative study of 15 individuals affected by Erdogan's great purge, Aydin and Avincan (2020) documented human rights violations such as government persecution in the form of torture and denial of the right to a fair trial. One year later, the researchers conducted a similar study that focused primarily on the diminished educational rights of Turkish citizens and found that academic freedom was curtailed, educators were harassed, and educational institutions were shut down (Aydin & Avincan, 2021). Avincan et al (2023), however, found that oppression and maltreatment were not confined to educational institutions and were instead widespread throughout society.…”

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Human Rights Violations in Türkiye: Loss of Job, Mobbing, Loss of Freedom of Travel, Denial of Health Services, and Persecution

Gul,

Gul

2023

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The Turkish government implemented antidemocratic policies and practices after the attempted coup in 2016, leading to the victimization of its own citizens. This qualitative study examined alleged constitutional and human rights violations in Türkiye using a phenomenological research design and semi-structured, in-depth interviews to document the lived experiences of 25 participants who were selected through snowball sampling. The main themes found in the study were loss of jobs, mobbing, loss of freedom of travel and movement, denial of health services (within and outside the criminal justice system), and physical and psychological persecution. The results of the study support previous research, contribute to the literature by revealing additional types of victimization, and, through first-person accounts, shed light on the serious harm that Turkish citizens suffered at the hands of the Erdogan government. Policy implications and limitations of the study are included.

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“…In the Turkish context, an unsuccessful military coup was attempted on July 15, 2016. Following the coup attempt, institutions linked to the Hizmet Movement (also known as the Gülen Movement) were closed down [5], and investigations were launched against hundreds of thousands of people [6]. After the coup attempt, hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs and freedom.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Approximately 27,000 teachers lost their jobs in connection with these closed institutions, and the education licenses of 21,000 of these teachers were revoked [6]- [8]. In addition, a total of 41,205 teachers working in public schools were dismissed from their jobs by 36 different decrees [9].…”

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Teachers with a refugee background work as educators in Germany

Özdemir,

Polat

2024

EduLearn

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This study's focus is to determine refugee teachers' views regarding their ability to work as teachers in Germany, their initiatives, and the challenges they face. In this context, the study was conducted based on qualitative research methodology. In order to collect data a total of 265 teachers residing in the 16 states of Germany were reached. Upon examining the results, it is observed that the majority of participants express a desire to work as teachers in Germany, while only a few have actually obtained the opportunity to work as teachers in Germany. More than half of the participants who are currently working as teachers reside in the North Rhine-Westphalia state. When analyzing the results, it becomes evident that a significant portion of the participants are strongly inclined to pursue a teaching career in Germany. However, the data reveals that the actual attainment of employment as teacher in Germany remains relatively low among the respondents. Furthermore, it is noteworthy that a majority of the teachers currently employed in the profession are concentrated in the North Rhine-Westphalia state.

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‘Am I a terrorist or an educator?’ Turkish asylum seekers narratives on education rights violations after a crackdown following the 2016 failed coup attempt in Turkey

Cited by 10 publications

References 26 publications

Religious Fundamentalism is Positively Associated with Feeling Privileged: Findings from a Representative Turkish Quota Sample

Religious Fundamentalism is Positively Associated with Feeling Privileged: Findings from a Representative Turkish Quota Sample

Human Rights Violations in Türkiye: Loss of Job, Mobbing, Loss of Freedom of Travel, Denial of Health Services, and Persecution

Teachers with a refugee background work as educators in Germany

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