Religion and Armed Conflict: Evidence from the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey

Gürses, Mehmet; Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

doi:10.1111/jssr.12652

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“…However, it is also important that two of the three most constructed facilities are condolence houses and cemeteries, which hold an important spot in most Kurds’ religious lives. Thus, it may be thought that these constructions also aim to generate sympathy towards conservative AKP from conservative sections of the Kurdish population instead of progressive HDP, which is in line with the Turkish State’s general strategy of using religion as a tool to assimilate Kurdish people (Gurses and Ozturk 2020, 330).…”

Section: Promoting Trustees: the Example Of Oluyornetmentioning

confidence: 86%

Trustees Instead of Elected Mayors: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Removal of Kurdish Mayors in Turkey

Tutkal

2021

Nationalities Papers

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This article examines the Turkish State’s recent practice of removing pro-Kurdish mayors and appointing trustees in their place without holding new elections. By comparing previous cases of removals of pro-Kurdish mayors to post-2016 practices, it argues that the discursive shift in legitimizing recent anti-democratic governmental practices should be read in relation to authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey. To this end, it analyzes a Twitter account dedicated to promoting public services of trustee-ran municipalities (oluyor.net) and 89 YouTube videos that feature the trustees themselves. By demonstrating the ways in which the trustees themselves promote their work in Kurdish-populated cities, it underlines the dangers of authoritarian neoliberalism in subordinating democratic mechanisms to economic development and providing better public services. However, by studying the results of the following 2019 local elections in these 89 trustee-appointed municipalities, this article shows that the local people mostly continue supporting democratic mechanisms by electing pro-Kurdish candidates even in unfair electoral conditions.

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Section: Promoting Trustees: the Example Of Oluyornetmentioning

confidence: 86%

Trustees Instead of Elected Mayors: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Removal of Kurdish Mayors in Turkey

Tutkal

2021

Nationalities Papers

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“…This finding contradicts prior expectation that the BH, being an Islamic sect, would disrupt the provision of health‐care services more in areas with a high concentration of non‐Muslim households (Silvestri et al, 2015). However, this may be because BH's ideology opposes “Western” education and general ways of life (Mahase, 2019; Yerima & Ranjit‐Singh, 2017), and so, anyone with a contrary opinion to this ideology, irrespective of religion, is termed an infidel and is subject to attacks (Gurses and Ozturk, 2020). This finding is very instructive and vital for the planning and deployment of MCH resources.…”

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The impact of armed conflicts on health‐care utilization in Northern Nigeria: A difference‐in‐differences analysis

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World Med & Health Policy

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Women and children suffer worse health outcomes during armed conflicts. For more than a decade, Northern Nigeria has been facing one of the most violent armed conflicts in sub‐Saharan Africa. Studies on the conflict's impact on healthcare utilization in the area are few. The aim of this study is to explore the effect of the protracted armed conflicts on healthcare utilization, measured by maternal care and child immunization, in Northern Nigeria. Data from the Armed Conflict Location and Events Data set are spatially merged to birth records from the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey. An area is classified to be a conflict cluster if it is within a 5–10 km radius of conflict event(s) with at least one fatality. The difference‐in‐differences method is applied to estimate the effect of the armed conflicts on healthcare utilization in the area. We find that residing within a conflict cluster significantly reduces the probability of utilization of healthcare services. We conclude that robust policies and strategies to mitigate the adverse effects of the armed conflicts on healthcare delivery are necessary for the short run. In the long run, systematic efforts to identify and address the root causes of the conflict with a view to finding a lasting solution are necessary to improve health‐care utilization in conflict‐affected areas.

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“…The reframing of the operation in Islamic references is especially important considering that the region of Afrin was claimed to be controlled, in popular media, by anti-religious pro-Marxist Syrian and Kurdish guerrilla groups. Comparable uses of religious idioms turn many contested issues and organizations into a part of a struggle between right and wrong, religiously inspired and others (Gurses and Ozturk, 2020).…”

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Populist party’s challenge to democracy: Institutional capture, performance and religion

Tepe

2021

Party Politics

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Studies of populist parties typically focus either on discourse, policies, or institutional captures (e.g., constitutional reforms). Yet the analysis of each in isolation risks thwarting our understanding of populists’ electoral success. Discursive practices and institutional captures of populist parties are not separate processes but their successes depend on each other. The resiliency of populist parties relies not only on overt but also insidious captures. Silent, gradual captures become effective through populist performances, deployment of excluded discourses and the extension of benefits to marginalized groups. Analysis of the recent transformation of Turkey’s oldest locally elected representative institution, mukhtars, illustrates how populist policies turn nonpartisan institutions into partisan ones through insidious captures and deployment of religious discourse. While empowering some groups, expanding political discourse and access to the state, such practices also limit nonpartisan representation, and turn political questions into normative issues, exacerbating the ongoing polarization and authoritarian control of ruling parties.

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Religion and Armed Conflict: Evidence from the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey

Cited by 22 publications

References 53 publications

Trustees Instead of Elected Mayors: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Removal of Kurdish Mayors in Turkey

Trustees Instead of Elected Mayors: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Removal of Kurdish Mayors in Turkey

The impact of armed conflicts on health‐care utilization in Northern Nigeria: A difference‐in‐differences analysis

Populist party’s challenge to democracy: Institutional capture, performance and religion

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