Ethnic Turkification and homogenization from Ottoman empire to the Turkish republic: critical investigations into the historiography of non-Muslims in Turkey

Boyraz, Cemil

doi:10.1080/14683849.2016.1246944

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“…Inheriting a greatly diverse population from the heydays of the multiethnic Ottoman Empire, the Turkish power elite has carried out a massive ethnic homogenization in the nation-building project. The fin-de-siècle Ottoman Turkey witnessed a series of conflicts, massacres, forced displacements, and population exchanges that paved the way for today's modern Turkish nation-state (Boyraz, 2017;White, 2014). The state-sanctioned nationalist ideal of this era has long denied or dismissed visible manifestations of ethnic identity and cultural markers (Keyman, 2013).…”

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A Text Mining Approach to Determinants of Attitude Towards Syrian Immigration in the Turkish Twittersphere

Koytak

Çelik

2022

Social Science Computer Review

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This study uses novel deep learning-based language models to extract meaningful information from vast chunks of textual data from Twitter on the competing narratives of the recent Syrian immigration to Turkey. Our analysis identifies five main topics in the framing of Syrian immigration in Turkish Twittersphere. In this paper, we demonstrate correlational links between the timing of landmark events and change in the percent share of trends in those topics across time. We highlight two important observations: (a) Social benefit demands of natives on Twitter rose sharply with the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to ever more widespread sentiments of welfare chauvinism and (b) Patriotic feelings and the implementation of an interventionist foreign policy agenda in the immigrants’ country of origin created a relatively tolerant yet patronizing attitude towards migrants. As the COVID-19 pandemic and immigration frequently occupy the center stage in politics of immigrant-hosting societies, our research has international appeal beyond its specific geographical context.

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A Text Mining Approach to Determinants of Attitude Towards Syrian Immigration in the Turkish Twittersphere

Koytak

Çelik

2022

Social Science Computer Review

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“…Anti-Semitism in Turkey was also exemplified by the cases of the Thracian Pogroms of 1934, the introduction of a Wealth Tax and the response of the Turkish authorities to legal and illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine through Turkey between 1939 and 1945. More importantly, both authors share the idea that the government’s motivation was ‘utilitarian rather than humanitarian’ and thus ‘the humanitarian intervention of the Turkish government and its officials to rescue Jews was a more a myth than a representation of reality’ (Boyraz, 2017: 386–387).…”

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“…In this case ‘securitization combines the politics of threat design with that of threat management’ (Balzacq et al, 2015: 495), referring to a situation in which the state-led efforts for the survival of Holocaust victims turn into political-discursive acts of negation for another crime against humanity. However, the enquiries by Guttstadt and Bahar are particularly noteworthy in their ‘powerful demystification of official discourses that claim that Turkish state policy aimed to “embrace” Jews during the war’ (Boyraz, 2017: 380). The archive materials, reports and state elites’ discourse and oral history used by these scholars demonstrate that ‘the general policy of the Turkish government is not pro-Jewish before and during the World War II’ (Boyraz, 2017: 384).…”

Section: Revisiting the European Interventions On Official Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the enquiries by Guttstadt and Bahar are particularly noteworthy in their ‘powerful demystification of official discourses that claim that Turkish state policy aimed to “embrace” Jews during the war’ (Boyraz, 2017: 380). The archive materials, reports and state elites’ discourse and oral history used by these scholars demonstrate that ‘the general policy of the Turkish government is not pro-Jewish before and during the World War II’ (Boyraz, 2017: 384). Anti-Semitism in Turkey was also exemplified by the cases of the Thracian Pogroms of 1934, the introduction of a Wealth Tax and the response of the Turkish authorities to legal and illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine through Turkey between 1939 and 1945.…”

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History-writing in Turkey through securitization discourses and gendered narratives

Bezirgan-Tanış

2019

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Since the official history-writing is a defining aspect for the formation and consolidation of nation-states, it is crucial to explore the attempts to legitimize particular discourses regarding historical atrocities. The selective representations of the past, in this regard, contradict counter-memories and propagate hegemonic patterns of remembrance and/or forgetting of past crimes. This article accordingly addresses how the representations of counter-memories as threats to national security and the silencing of gender-specific experiences and remembrances by sanctioned historical narratives become manifest in the history-making of the Turkish nation-state. By focusing on the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide as two cases of crimes against humanity, it is intended to discuss the shifting positions and roles that the Turkish state adopts in the remembering and forgetting of historical offences. The article argues that through prioritizing national security and national interests, the securitization of memory reconstructs collective traumas of distinct ethnic and religious groups on the basis of a nation-state’s perceived internal and external threats. It also claims that the competing voices of women and their distinct experiences and patterns of remembrance and forgetting past atrocities are suppressed for the sake of the preservation of national security. By incorporating the issue of gender into the debate on the securitization of memory, this article elucidates the mismatch between positions of femininity and masculinity within the official national historiography of the Turkish state.

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The Evolution of the Kemalists’ Diyanet

Yılmaz

Albayrak

2022

Palgrave Studies in Populisms

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Ethnic Turkification and homogenization from Ottoman empire to the Turkish republic: critical investigations into the historiography of non-Muslims in Turkey

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

A Text Mining Approach to Determinants of Attitude Towards Syrian Immigration in the Turkish Twittersphere

A Text Mining Approach to Determinants of Attitude Towards Syrian Immigration in the Turkish Twittersphere

History-writing in Turkey through securitization discourses and gendered narratives

The Evolution of the Kemalists’ Diyanet

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