The AKP’s “pious youth in Cyprus” Project and the Turkish Cypriot “deviations”

Moudouros, Nikos

doi:10.1163/22117954-12341385

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“…Polarization between those who insist on federalism and those who prefer a two-state solution and closer ties with Ankara was also intensified by the contradictions between TCs’ strong Kemalist tradition and the conservative/religious identity of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Indeed, TCs split over AKP-backed policies and measures intended to encourage a revival of Islam in recent years, including the opening of new schools, the construction of new mosques, and the promotion of Islamic organizations (see Moudouros 2019).…”

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Critical Junctures and Ontological Security in Unrecognized States: The Response of Northern Cyprus to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gülseven

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article will examine the response of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to the COVID-19 pandemic from an ontological security approach to illustrate how critical junctures may help de facto states in their quest for status and internal legitimacy. Stressing the pandemic’s role in the reconstruction of political narratives and self-legitimating practices among Turkish Cypriot elites, it sheds light on the effects of this global crisis on domestic power struggles in Northern Cyprus as well as its quasi-foreign relations with its patron state (Turkey), parent state (Republic of Cyprus), and the European Union. The study shows that both nationalist and federalist elites of the de facto entity instrumentalized the pandemic in their legitimation strategies and engaged in opportunistic behavior amid the outbreak. It also reveals how the pandemic enhanced the ontological security of Northern Cyprus while advancing its nationalist leadership’s claims for legitimate authority by enabling state-specific forms of agency and unilateral acts concerning the Cyprus dispute that may jeopardize the resumption of peace talks with Greek Cypriots. Thus, it can be assumed that advanced ontological security of the TRNC is highly volatile given the prospects of further isolation and de-engagement in the post-pandemic era.

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Critical Junctures and Ontological Security in Unrecognized States: The Response of Northern Cyprus to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gülseven

2022

Nationalities Papers

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“…First, the article focuses on a largely unstudied political and social conflict internal to Northern Cyprus between Turkish Cypriots and settlers from Turkey, a subject that has been overlooked in comparison to the interethnic conflict on the island (Ramm 2009). Moreover, while nationalist and post-conflict paradigms dominate the study of Cyprus, the scholarship on religious dynamics in Cyprus is much less developed (Moudouros 2019; Nevzat & Hatay 2009). Following independence from British colonial rule and the ensuing ethnic conflict with Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots welcomed Turkey’s military intervention in 1974 and the establishment of a separate Turkish Cypriot entity in 1983.…”

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“Fraternal” Other: Negotiating Ethnic and Religious Identities at a Muslim Sacred Site in Northern Cyprus

Harmanşah

2021

Nationalities Papers

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This article shows how everyday religious practices inform the processes of social identification, complicate presumed ethno-religious categories, and mediate local cultural differences in face of political and cultural hegemonic practices. In the context of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a de facto state recognized only by Turkey, Turkish Cypriots and Turks are considered to share an ethnicity and religion. This “overlap” has been employed to justify Turkey’s military intervention and its political, economic, and cultural domination over the island. Yet the cultural diversities and “perceived” differences between and among these groups are exacerbated by power dynamics, nationalist agendas, and mutual biases. The article explains subtle discussions around “genuine” Turkish and Muslim identities, as well as the enforced coexistence and constructed brotherhood of Cypriots and Turks on the island. The competing accounts of the “correct” interpretation of Islam at a Muslim tekke reflect intragroup power asymmetries and the conflict between institutionalized Sunni-Orthodox and “heterodox” local Islam. The article focuses on two overlooked issues in the scholarship on Northern Cyprus—the relations between Turkish Cypriots and settlers from Turkey, and the role of religion in the political processes—as well as on literature on shared sacred sites and an analysis of competitive intracommunal interactions.

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Possessing and being possessed by the past: on the ambivalences of heritage as religious return

Coleman,

Mesaritou

2024

Cultural Studies

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The AKP’s “pious youth in Cyprus” Project and the Turkish Cypriot “deviations”

Cited by 6 publications

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Critical Junctures and Ontological Security in Unrecognized States: The Response of Northern Cyprus to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Critical Junctures and Ontological Security in Unrecognized States: The Response of Northern Cyprus to the COVID-19 Pandemic

“Fraternal” Other: Negotiating Ethnic and Religious Identities at a Muslim Sacred Site in Northern Cyprus

Possessing and being possessed by the past: on the ambivalences of heritage as religious return

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