Assessing centralization: on Turkey’s rising personalist regime

Öztürk, Sevinç; Reilly, Thomas

doi:10.1080/14683857.2022.2137899

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“…A curious aspect of Erdo gan's presidency is that despite praising the Ottoman Empire's alleged lack of racism and bigotry, and his glorification of the Empire's long domination of the Middle East, Anatolia, and parts of Eastern and Southern Europe, his own plan for Turkey little resembles Ottoman forms of government such as the decentralized millet system (Barkey and Gavrilis 2016). Rather, with a top down authoritarian social engineering process, Erdo gan is attempting to construct a centralized society in his image (Tansel 2020;Öztürk and Reilly 2022;Bayulgen et al 2018), and is intolerant of ethnic and religious minorities if they show dissent.…”

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Civilizational Populism in Domestic and Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey

Yilmaz

Morieson

2023

Religions

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This article investigates whether Turkish populism has undergone a ‘civilizational turn’ akin to what Brubaker, Haynes, Yilmaz, and Morieson have described occurring among populist parties in Europe and North America. The article applies Yilmaz and Morieson’s definition of ‘civilizational populism’ to Turkey under the rule of the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) in order to determine whether the party conforms to this definition. The article investigates how the AKP, an Islamist and populist political party lead by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has increasingly incorporated what we term ‘civilizational populism’ into its discourse. The article shows the impact of civilizational populism on Turkey’s domestic and foreign policy under the AKP rule. The article finds that the AKP has increasingly, and especially since the 2013 Gezi Park protests and the mysterious coup attempt in 2016, construed opposition between the Turkish ‘self’ and the ‘other’ not in primarily nationalist terms, but in religious and civilizational terms, and as a conflict between the Ottoman-Islamic ‘self’ and ‘Western’ other. Furthermore, the article finds that the AKP’s domestic and foreign policies reflect its civilizational populist division of Turkish society insofar as the party is attempting to raise a ‘pious generation’ that supports its Islamizing of Turkey society, and its nostalgic neo-Ottomanist power projections in the Middle East. Finally, the paper discusses how the AKP’s civilizational populism has become a transnational populist phenomenon due to the party’s ability to produce successful television shows that reflect its anti-Western worldview and justify its neo-Ottoman imperialism in the Middle East.

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Civilizational Populism in Domestic and Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey

Yilmaz

Morieson

2023

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“…Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's current leader, came to power in 2002 with free and fair elections. Since then, the country has gone through a process of gradual autocratization that ended with the establishment of a personalist authoritarian regime, which is similar to the ones in Russia, Venezuela, or Hungary (Cleary & Öztürk, 2022;Öztürk & Reilly, 2022). Multi-party elections for executive and legislative branches still take place in Turkey, and opposition parties have gained some important victories recently at the local level (Demiralp & Balta, 2021).…”

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Recognition Paradox: Minority Language Recognition, Political Trust, and Ethnic Demands

Öztürk¹,

Öztürk²

2023

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Can the recognition of a minority language by the state, such as the increasing use of the minority language in state services, help the state to build political trust among its minority citizens? Or, does it rather strengthen the ethnic divisions in the country? Despite the significance of the language policy, especially in countries experiencing ongoing ethnic conflict, the empirical literature on its causal effects stay limited. In this study, we explore the effects of the minority language recognition n minority individuals' political attitudes in an authoritarian country experiencing an ongoing ethnic conflict, i.e, Turkey. We conducted a pre-registered online survey experiment, recruiting Kurdish citizens of Turkey. Our results point to a recognition paradox. While the Kurdish people living in Turkey become more satisfied with state services if these services are presented in the Kurdish language, this satisfaction does not lead to increased trust in state institutions. On the other hand, the recognition of the minority language further increases ethnic demands in language policy. We believe that our results make significant contribution to the literature on ethnic politics.

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Whisper sweet nothings to me Erdoğan: developmentalist propaganda, partisan emotions, and economic evaluations in Turkey

Öztürk

2023

Democratization

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Assessing centralization: on Turkey’s rising personalist regime

Cited by 6 publications

References 46 publications

Civilizational Populism in Domestic and Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey

Civilizational Populism in Domestic and Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey

Recognition Paradox: Minority Language Recognition, Political Trust, and Ethnic Demands

Whisper sweet nothings to me Erdoğan: developmentalist propaganda, partisan emotions, and economic evaluations in Turkey

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