Kurdish Transnational Politics and Turkey's Changing Kurdish Policy: The Journey of Kurdish Broadcasting from Europe to Turkey

Ayata, Bilgin

doi:10.1080/14782804.2011.639988

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“…Dan Rabinowitz's (2012) analysis, for instance, sheds light on how language has become central to establishing, justifying, and maintaining borders in Israel since the state's establishment. On the other hand, scholars such as Bilgin Ayata (2012) and Jaffer Sheyholislami (2010) show how Kurdish media help to establish transnational belongings and identities that stretch across borders. But not only do media technologies, particularly digital media, facilitate the forging and sustaining of transnational belongings and identifications (Bayramoğlu and Lünenborg 2018); they also serve to intertwine borders with data and code, creating a condition of "postvisuality" that helps to secure racialized border regimes (Madörin 2019).…”

Section: Mediated Bordering Contagious Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Border panic over the pandemic: mediated anxieties about migrant sex workers and queers during the AIDS crises in Turkey

Bayramoğlu

2021

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Looking back to remember the "arrival" of AIDS in Turkey, this article explores how the spread of the new disease fueled border panic in Turkey from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s. Drawing on a rich array of material from the archives of national newspapers and magazines, this article analyzes the media discourse on migrant sex workers from the former USSR and the first HIV-positive men. It shows how both groups were seen as intruders bringing the virus from outside Turkey's borders to its territory. In both cases, I argue, fear of the spread of the virus across borders became entangled with anxieties about the movement of ideas, images, lifeworlds, and meanings relating to sexuality that were discursively constructed as fundamentally alien to Turkish ones. The movement of sexually and racially "other" bodies across borders was seen as a threat to the fragile construed border between "Turkishness" and "foreignness".

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Section: Mediated Bordering Contagious Diseasesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Border panic over the pandemic: mediated anxieties about migrant sex workers and queers during the AIDS crises in Turkey

Bayramoğlu

2021

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…Singing in the Kurdish language was considered highly political, even if the lyrics might not have a political content. As a consequence of the ban on singing, Kurdish channels broadcast abroad (Ayata 2011) and a strong tradition of Kurdish protest music developed: it would suffice to mention the ‘voice of Kurdistan’ Şivan Perver. Born in the province of Şanliurfa, he escaped from Turkey in the 1970s to avoid prosecution for having performed traditional music with Kurdish lyrics.…”

Section: Istanbul: From Bridge To Taksim's Barricadesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Istanbul sounding like revolution: the role of music in the Gezi Park Occupy movement

Bianchi¹

2018

Pop. Mus.

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This article focuses on the role of protest music in the biggest social movement of recent Turkish history. It is the result of three years of fieldwork triangulating musical and cultural analysis with ethnographic methods. Motives of the protest, strategies of the movement, agency of musicians and participatory performances are investigated and contextualised in an analysis of Turkey's cultural changes. The function of music shifted from framing the protest to encouraging political action and fostering a sense of belonging to the collective identity of the Gezi Park movement. Music even became political activism. By underlining different functions played by music in the case of the Gezi Park movement, this article problematises the relevance of music for social movements.

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“…MED-TV, a Kurdish television channel established by a group of Kurdish immigrants in Britain in 1994, is a palpable example of this. 10 Disseminating media content to most of Europe and the Middle East via satellite between 1994 and 1997, the programming of MED-TV sought to create cultural and linguistic unification among Kurds and to simulate the sovereignty of an imaginary Kurdish nation-state, albeit in transnational space. Amir Hassanpour coins the phrase "sovereignty in the sky" to describe the channel's efforts to erect Kurdish nationhood via satellite in the absence of an official Kurdish state: the "presence of the Kurdish national flag and anthem [on the screen] means that MED-TV has the power to treat Kurds not as audiences but as citizens of a Kurdish state."…”

Section: M Ag I N I N G T H E Nat I O N I N T R a N S Nat I O Na L mentioning

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Kurdish Cinema as a Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, and Political Agency

Koçer¹

2014

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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Within the last few years, “Kurdish cinema” has emerged as a unique discursive subject in Turkey. Subsequent to and in line with efforts to unify Kurdish cultural production in diaspora, Kurdish intellectuals have endeavored to define and frame the substance of Kurdish cinema as an orienting framework for the production and reception of films by and about Kurds. In this article, my argument is threefold. First, Kurdish cinema has emerged as a national cinema in transnational space. Second, like all media texts, Kurdish films are nationalized in discourse. Third, the communicative strategies used to nationalize Kurdish cinema must be viewed both in the context of the historical forces of Turkish nationalism and against a backdrop of contemporary politics in Turkey, specifically the Turkish government's discourses and policies related to the Kurds. The empirical data for this article derive from ethnographic research in Turkey and Europe conducted between 2009 and 2012.

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Kurdish Transnational Politics and Turkey's Changing Kurdish Policy: The Journey of Kurdish Broadcasting from Europe to Turkey

Cited by 64 publications

References 10 publications

Border panic over the pandemic: mediated anxieties about migrant sex workers and queers during the AIDS crises in Turkey

Border panic over the pandemic: mediated anxieties about migrant sex workers and queers during the AIDS crises in Turkey

Istanbul sounding like revolution: the role of music in the Gezi Park Occupy movement

Kurdish Cinema as a Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, and Political Agency

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