Turkey's Kurdish dilemma

Barkey, Henri J.

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“…A second and more plausible thesis, which can be called the democratization thesis (DT) and which is implicitly and in different versions upheld by the majority of scholarly and journalistic writings (see, among others, Barkey & Fuller, 1998;Ergil, 2000;Gunter, 1997;Kinzer, 2001), is more promising. According to the DT, the expression of the Kurdish identity was suppressed by nationalist elites and institutions, such as the Turkish military and bureaucratic establishment, who maintained the power to determine the evolution of the civil discourse.…”

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“…It refers to discursive changes but makes little systematic attempt to measure them, identify the triggering events and causal mechanisms, and derive theory and policy implications (Barkey & Fuller, 1998;Gunter, 1997;Kadíog* lu, 1997;Kasaba, 2001;Kiris7 çi & Winrow, 1997;Yavuz, 2001). Alternatively, it is focused on the state's discourse and ideology rather than the society's (Sakallíog* lu, 1996;Yeg* en, 1996).…”

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Resurgence and Remaking of Identity

Somer

2005

Comparative Political Studies

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This article analyzes the case of Turkey and theorizes about the causal mechanisms that can explain discursive transformations through which dominant perceptions of ethnic identities are suppressed, revived, and remade. Systematic content analysis of a major Turkish newspaper from 1984 through 1998, comparisons across subperiods, in-depth interviews with prominent journalists, and detailed examination of the historical events constitute the empirical analysis. Arguing that the state elites did not form a monolithic group, it is shown that the transformation of the mainstream discourse during the 1990s occurred after several reversals, relatively swiftly, and at least partly despite resistance from within the state. The Kurdistan Worker's Party conflict; shifting instrumental elite beliefs; breakdown of cooperation among moderates; external developments, including those in Iraq; and cascade mechanisms played causal roles. The explanation contributes to a multidisciplinary body of literatures on public-political discourse, cascade theories of social-political change, ethnic conflict, democratization, Turkey, and Kurds and derives policy implications.

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Resurgence and Remaking of Identity

Somer

2005

Comparative Political Studies

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“…56 The emergence of the self-styled Marxist -Leninist PKK, with a radical program (at least initially) aiming to purge southern Turkey's feudal elements and establish a separate socialist state, resulted both in further oppression of all elements of Kurdish popular culture and the commonplace association of almost all Kurds with terrorism. 57 In this process, the old mountain Turk became first an anarchist, and later a terrorist, traitor and enemy force.…”

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The Historical “Stickiness” of Nationalism Inside Turkey's Political Field

Akdenİz

Göker²

2011

Turkish Studies

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This article revisits modern Turkish political history with a specific focus on trajectories of Turkish nationalism, from the end of the nineteenth century of the Ottoman Empire, to the forms it takes under Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule today. The discussion is theoretically embedded within a relational political-sociological framework that utilizes the "field analysis" approach developed by Pierre Bourdieu. Using this approach, this paper argues that a workable, explanatory political -sociological "surface" of analysis of Turkish politics might be "the political field." It further argues that inside this field of political forces and competing groups, there is an ordering principle that supplies the political actors with a set of beliefs concerning "what can be politicized for sustainable power." In this study, nationalism is treated as a kind of historically constituted and re-constituted "set of beliefs," or doxa in Bourdieu's terminology. The paper further explores two long-lasting "challenges" to Turkish nationalism, those of Islamist and Kurdish claims, and the recent trajectories of these two forms of politics inside the field.

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“…Contrary to former decades any implicit recognition of Kurdishness as socio-cultural reality was entirely excluded, which accelerated the process of Kurdish identity formation. 9 The general trend of identity in Kurdish society has thereby been a move from one with strong religious components in the 1920s-30s, to one with strong class components in the 1960s-70s, to one with ethnicity as the core layer in the 1990s. 10 …”

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Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s

Hirschler¹

2001

Middle Eastern Studies

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Turkey's Kurdish dilemma

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Resurgence and Remaking of Identity

Resurgence and Remaking of Identity

The Historical “Stickiness” of Nationalism Inside Turkey's Political Field

Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s

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