The Development and Current State of Youth Research in Turkey

Demır, İlkay

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“…39 This study has been an attempt to help remedy that situation. While no one study can singlehandedly explain the vast topic that is Turkish youth, we hope that we have elucidated a small yet significant aspect of the lives of Turkish youth; namely, their desire to question and confront.…”

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“…As recently as 2012, İlkay Demir, in her article "The Development and Current State of Youth Research in Turkey: An Overview," has claimed that "we have very limited knowledge of youths' lives, experiences, identity constructions, and school-family-work transitions." 39 This study has been an attempt to help remedy that situation. While no one study can singlehandedly explain the vast topic that is Turkish youth, we hope that we have elucidated a small yet significant aspect of the lives of Turkish youth; namely, their desire to question and confront.…”

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Underground literature and its influence on youth in Turkey

Mortenson

Ergun

Erdoğan

2015

New Perspect. Turk.

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This paper examines the impact underground literature (yeraltı edebiyatı) has on influencing the opinions and beliefs of Turkey's youth regarding issues of contemporary importance. In order to understand the relevance of this genre to Turkish youth culture, we have not only examined the debate surrounding the topic in popular and academic circles, but also asked the readers themselves their opinions about their experience with the genre (in both its imported Western and homegrown Turkish variants) and its relevance to their lives. For our purposes, the effect of such texts on readers is the primary focus, and ours is the first mixedmedia study to conduct a methodological, data-based investigation into the composition and opinions of underground literature's readers. Thus, our study supplements a lack in the existing scholarship by offering concrete qualitative and quantitative data that will better elucidate our knowledge of the relationship between underground literature and Turkish youth attitudes, as well as the potential the genre might hold for the future of Turkey's youth.

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Underground literature and its influence on youth in Turkey

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Ergun

Erdoğan

2015

New Perspect. Turk.

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“…The new republican regime imbued youth with a mission to promote and protect the republican ideas in the early twentieth century (Demir, 2012). The regime simultaneously conceived youth as an inexperienced and homogenous group vulnerable to moral and cultural degeneration.…”

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Work for the Nation, Obey the State, Praise the Ummah: Turkey’s Government-oriented Youth Organizations in Cultivating a New Nation

Yabancı

2019

Ethnopolitics

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Modern Turkey's emergence was a nationalist struggle that aimed to cultivate youth as secular citizens. Almost a century later, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) attempts to re-model youth through a new ethno-religious nationalist project. This study argues that different from the secular Kemalist social engineering that dominated the state's youth policy for decades, the AKP relies on the intermediary agency of Islamist-conservative and government-oriented civil society to shape young generations and convey ethno-religious nationalism to youth. Seventeen governmentoriented youth organizations illustrate the extent of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) quest for a new national identity and cultural hegemony within the broader context of Turkey's steady decline into an authoritarian regime. The findings-based on original fieldwork conducted between October 2017-June 2019-demonstrate youth organizations' country-wide grassroots engagement in four categories: indoctrination, extra-curricular training, service provision in the education sector, and street activism and humanitarian work. Their self-defined goals, ideological roots and grassroots reach inject a new disciplinary ethos and statist values in youth towards shaping them as Muslim and nationalist 'ideal citizens'. The study offers insights on the societal aspects of authoritarian regime building and cautions that crafting 'successful' authoritarian regimes is not a one-way process that takes place only at the formal institutional level. A broad range of societal players and coalitions, including civil society, play a critical role in authoritarian regime building.Ethnopolitics, 2019 https://doi.

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Herz²

2019

Youth Studies in Transition: Culture, Generation and New Learning Processes

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The Development and Current State of Youth Research in Turkey

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Underground literature and its influence on youth in Turkey

Underground literature and its influence on youth in Turkey

Work for the Nation, Obey the State, Praise the Ummah: Turkey’s Government-oriented Youth Organizations in Cultivating a New Nation

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