| Title: | The remaking and unmaking of multi-ethnic spaces : Diyarbakir and Southeast Anatolia in the 21st century |
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| Authors: | ID Gourlay, William (Author) |
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 URL - Source URL, visit https://doi.org/10.35469/poligrafi.2021.285
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  ZRS Koper - Science and Research Centre Koper
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| Abstract: | Focusing on 21st century developments in southeast Anatolia, this article exa-mines the circumstances of minority communities within the contexts of the shifting dynamics of Turkey’s national project. Until the early 20th century southe-ast Anatolia was an ethnic patchwork. The early republican era saw efforts to “Turkify” through the promulgation of a national identity project asserting eth-nic unity. From the 1980s, conflict with the PKK gave urgency to the notion that uniformity was paramount for national cohesion. In this milieu, ethnic diversity was suspect. Circumstances changed with the AKP government’s 2002 ascendance and the earlier emergence of Kurdish municipal politicians. This article documents how thereafter the re-imagining of the national project away from an exclusive eth-nic categorisation allowed acknowledgement and accommodation of ethnic and religious diversity across southeast Anatolia. The chapter analyses these events in light of a backlash by nationalist politicians, the 2015 re-ignition of the PKK con-flict and the subsequent resurgence of nationalist rhetoric in the political arena. It appears a narrow, exclusive national identity is re-asserting itself. The article thus examines the extent to which the experience of south-eastern Anatolia represents the re-imagining of Turkey’s national project and the embrace of a previously de-nied multi-ethnic socio-political fabric. |
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| Keywords: | Turkey, southeast Anatolia, ethnic identity, minorities, national identity, Justice and Development Party, nationalism |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 29.12.2021 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2021 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 65-92 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 26 , št. 101/102 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-14863  |
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| UDC: | 323.15(560) |
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| ISSN on article: | 1318-8828 |
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| DOI: | 10.35469/poligrafi.2021.285 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 100637955 |
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| Copyright: | ZRS Koper |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 22.03.2022 |
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| Views: | 466 |
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