Politics of remembering the enemy: prisoner narratives of the 1980 military coup

Şensönmez, Gökhan

doi:10.1080/14683849.2022.2073225

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“…Kılıçdaroğlu's characterization of the victims of the February coup as ‘the fellow victim’ can be seen as an example of “multidirectional memory” (Günay‐Erkol, Şenol‐Sert, 2018) and a sign that different narrations of “victims” are not contesting anymore but have started communicating in Turkey. A recent study showed a similar case in which Turkey's far‐right and far‐left memory camps remembered the enemy as “the fellow victim” (Şensönmez, 2022). With a promise of “reconciling Turkey”, Kılıçdaroğlu, who visited the relatives of the victims of Uludere in August 2022, continues to visit victims of several traumatic events mentioned by our respondents.…”

Section: Conclusion: Polarized Traumas Of Remembering Coups In a Mult...mentioning

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The Polarization of Traumas and Selective Remembering: Competing Political Memories of Military Coups in Contemporary Turkey

Narlı¹,

Akyıldız²,

Bircan³

2023

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Based on a national survey funded by the TÜBİTAK SOBAG Program, conducted with 1,957 respondents in 12 cities during 2013-2014, this article examines the political memory of the 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997 coups by describing the memories and accompanying emotions of Turkish adults. It then explains how differences in remembering and not remembering the coups are related to demographic, socio-cultural, political identity, and fear variables. The data reveals diverse, multidirectional, and contesting coup memory patterns. While religiosity was associated with the memories of the 1960 and 1997 coups, self-declared conservatism, modernity, political identity, political fears differed across the republican/secular and conservative/Islamist divides.The multidirectional and polarized remembering is largely a reflection of the current political context of a polarized memory regime instilled by the ruling Justice and Development Party from the basis of the 1990s 0 memory landscape, which was filled with diverse and competing narratives that challenged early republican political memories.

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Section: Conclusion: Polarized Traumas Of Remembering Coups In a Mult...mentioning

confidence: 91%

The Polarization of Traumas and Selective Remembering: Competing Political Memories of Military Coups in Contemporary Turkey

Narlı¹,

Akyıldız²,

Bircan³

2023

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Politics of remembering the enemy: prisoner narratives of the 1980 military coup

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The Polarization of Traumas and Selective Remembering: Competing Political Memories of Military Coups in Contemporary Turkey

The Polarization of Traumas and Selective Remembering: Competing Political Memories of Military Coups in Contemporary Turkey

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