Confrontational Civilizational Identity in the Making? The New Turkey and the West

Alaranta, Toni

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22059-4_10

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“…The AKP, which was a splinter party of the Islamist Fazilet Partisi (VP; Virtue Party) that was closed down by the Turkish Constitutional Court in 2001 on the grounds of anti-secular activities, undertook key policy changes in the domestic and international realm, which have also raised questions over Turkey’s identity. A plethora of works have explored the change in articulated Turkish identity in AKP discourse, with reference to the AKP’s changing representations of Europe which have been a key component of the discursively constructed Turkish identity, since the establishment of the Republic (Alaranta, 2015). Nonetheless, there has been little discussion of whether, and if so how, this change has penetrated into the discourses of the Turkish public on Europe.…”

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Foreign policy and identity change: Analysing perceptions of Europe among the Turkish public

Aydın‐Düzgit

2017

Politics

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Foreign policy is a key area through which state officials’ role in the discursive construction of a state’s identity becomes possible and visible. From this viewpoint, Turkey presents an interesting case worthy of analysis due to the significant transformation of its foreign policies in the recent decades. This article first reviews the current literature, which points out that the shift in Turkish foreign policy and the souring of Turkey–European Union (EU) relations in the second half of the 2000s not only entailed a policy change but also a change in the crafted identity of the state at the elite level as distanced from Europe. This article then aims to undercover whether this crafted identity at the elite level is also visible across the changing perceptions of Europe among the Turkish public. Hence, it seeks to observe the ways in which public discourse does or does not follow elite discourse on representations of Europe, and, in turn, engages with the conceptual question of whether public constructions of state identity simply follow elite constructions. This is done through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of texts produced by focus group interviews.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%