Democratization, human rights and ethnic policies in Turkey

Kilic, Hayrettin

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“…I am grateful to John Paul Jones III, Don Mitchell, Robert Olson, the anonymous reviewers, and ''People, Place and Region'' editor Audrey Kobayashi for their insightful comments on previous drafts of this manuscript. Although Turkey repealed the language law in 1991, the use of Kurdish is still effectively regulated through constitutional articles and laws that enable the prosecution of any expression that might be construed as threatening to state security or integrity (Hassanpour 1998;Kiliç 1998). My deepest debt of gratitude is to the women who shared their stories with me and to all of those who made this work possible in Turkey.…”

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“There Is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me”: Citizenship, Space, and Identity in the City

Secor

2004

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

190

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The citizenship ideal of the Turkish republic has taken shape through the logics of alterity, defined by and through both a paradoxical understanding of Turkishness and the rise of Kurdish identity politics. Citizenship in Turkey represents an uneasy marriage between ethnic and civic conceptions of national identity and belonging. This article develops an analysis of citizenship and everyday spatial practice in Istanbul through the narratives produced in focus group discussions with Kurdish‐identified, migrant women. Their stories explore how citizenship, as a hegemonic process that assembles identities, fixes power relations, and disciplines space, is encountered and contested through the spatial practices of everyday life, through what Michel de Certeau calls the tactics of “making do.” Viewing dominant discourses and practices of citizenship as techniques of spatial organization (“strategies,” in de Certeau's terms), this study focuses on how participants narrate their own spatial stories of resistance to and appropriation of dominant codings of “the citizen” and “the stranger” in the Turkish context. This analysis brings to the fore the ways in which focus group participants encounter discourses and practices that position them as strangers and citizens, their use of tactics of anonymity and strategies of identity as they traverse city spaces, and the moments in which they situate themselves as political subjects in schools, neighborhoods, and workplaces in Istanbul, through the spatial enactment of the strategies of citizenship and the tactics of everyday life.

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“…8. Although Turkey repealed the language law in 1991, the use of Kurdish is still effectively regulated through constitutional articles and laws that enable the prosecution of any expression that might be construed as threatening to state security or integrity (Hassanpour 1998;Kiliç 1998). 9.…”

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“There Is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me”: Citizenship, Space, and Identity in the City

Secor

2004

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

190

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“…Shortly after World War I, the first president of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, promised autonomy for the Kurds, declaring that they would choose their own rulers (Kiliç, 1998). However, it later became clear that the new republic’s policymakers had never wanted to re-establish a country for all, but instead wanted to build a new state “with an identity that was explicitly Turkish” (McDowall, 1992, p. 14).…”

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“…By the 1960s, Turkey had almost demolished any Kurdish threat by the imposition of state policies. Cemal Gürsel, the head of the Committee of National Unity (Milli Birlik Komitesi, CNU) and the fourth President of the Republic, confidently stated: “There are no Kurds in this country” (Kiliç, 1998). Meanwhile, the Turkish state and its politicians continued to threaten the Kurds.…”

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Failure of Peace Talks between Turkey and the PKK: Victim of Traditional Turkish Policy or of Geopolitical Shifts in the Middle East?

Ozkahraman

2017

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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When the third set of peace negotiations between Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerén Kurdistan, PKK) and the Turkish state were announced on March 21, 2013, there was a hope that they would lead to lasting peace in the Kurdish region of Turkey. However, these peace talks, like previous ones, failed. This article investigates whether traditional Turkish policy toward the Kurdish question impacted the peace process, and to what extent Kurdish autonomy in Syria and its increasing role in Middle East geopolitics contributed to the Turkish state’s unwillingness to pursue resolution for a lasting peace with the PKK. The article suggests that, in order to realize a lasting peace, skepticism must be diminished, and Turkey must consider its historical responsibility toward the Kurds.

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“…The greater part of southeastern Turkey, where Kurds constitute the majority, was under marshal law from 1980 to 2002. For a discussion on the military and the human rights conflict in Turkey, see, for example, Barkey (1998); Gabeilnick (1999); Kilic (1998); Parla (1998); White (1998). 27.…”

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Militarization of the Market and Rent‐Seeking Coalitions in Turkey

Demir¹

2005

Development and Change

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This article analyses the role of historically-determined institutional and political characteristics in determining both the nature of the adjustment process, and its economic and political outcomes, in Turkey. In particular, the author explores the degree to which the formation of rent-seeking coalitions has contributed to the failure of neo-liberal economic reforms in the country. The analysis suggests that the Turkish experience since the early 1980s offers a unique case for studying the relationships between the state bureaucracy, the military, the business sector, civil society, and international economic actors. Unlike previous research in this area, this article focuses especially on the role of the military as an interest group in the process of economic liberalization in Turkey.

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Democratization, human rights and ethnic policies in Turkey

Cited by 14 publications

References 10 publications

“There Is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me”: Citizenship, Space, and Identity in the City

“There Is an Istanbul That Belongs to Me”: Citizenship, Space, and Identity in the City

Failure of Peace Talks between Turkey and the PKK: Victim of Traditional Turkish Policy or of Geopolitical Shifts in the Middle East?

Militarization of the Market and Rent‐Seeking Coalitions in Turkey

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