The Kurdish Question and Turkey's Justice and Development Party

Yavuz, M. Hakan; Özcan, Nihat Ali

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4967.2006.00241.x

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“…The alternative in question appeals to common Islamic identity as a unifying force beyond ethnic divisions. 44 An explicit statement in this regard appeared in a report 45 on the Kurdish issue prepared by the Foundation of Civil Society Organizations, an umbrella institution bringing together a large number of mostly conservative NGOs. This alternative solidarity project draws on Sunni Islam and is promoted by the active involvement of voluntary initiatives, in particular Gülen-inspired initiative from intellectual thing tanks, business organizations, and charitable associations, apart from the media organizations that are directly and indirectly financed by the faith-based initiatives.…”

Section: The Kurdish Issue As a Problem Of Solidaritymentioning

confidence: 98%

Solidarity Among Strangers:A Problem of Coexistence in Turkey

Candas

Buğra

2010

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Section: The Kurdish Issue As a Problem Of Solidaritymentioning

confidence: 98%

Solidarity Among Strangers:A Problem of Coexistence in Turkey

Candas

Buğra

2010

Constellations

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“…In the 2003 elections, 13 of 27 participating parties were successful in getting representatives elected (i.e., passed the legal threshold of 1.5% of the vote), and in the 2006 elections, 12 of 31 parties passed the newly raised threshold of 2%. From a comparative perspective, these election thresholds are very low (e.g., as compared to 5% in New Zealand and germany [Weaver, 2002] or 10% in Turkey [Yavuz & Ozcan, 2006]). In combination with a system that has no regional representation, low thresholds provide incentives for very small parties to compete and thus create an extreme multiparty system that offers Israeli voters ample choice between parties with relatively similar platforms.…”

Section: The Israeli Contextmentioning

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The Influence of Presumed Media Influence on Strategic Voting

Cohen

Tsfati

2009

Communication Research

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An increasingly influential line of research on media effects suggests that some of the effects of news media on society take place because people perceive media as influential. In this article, the authors test this notion, in the context of voting decisions. The authors propose that voters' perceptions regarding the influence of media will be related to their intention to vote strategically—that is, to vote for a party they favor less than their most preferred option. If news media are perceived to persuade other voters to switch their votes, it will more likely be necessary to switch one's vote to either conform to or counterbalance the effects of media on others. Two studies, utilizing three data sets, collected in the context of the Israeli Knesset elections of 2003 and 2006 using different measures of strategic voting were used to test the hypothesis that perceptions of media influence on others will relate to strategic voting. The hypothesis was confirmed in both studies.

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“…Most specifically, the Copenhagen criteria which foresee adoption of human and minority rights for EU candidate countries has opened opportunity spaces for Kurds against the Turkish state (Yavuz & Ozcan, 2006). Despite this international awareness for the Kurdish struggle and to some extent solidarity formation, the PKK could not escape being recognized as a terrorist organization.…”

Section: Internationalization Of the Pro-kurdish Mobilization In Turkeymentioning

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Local Armed Uprisings and the Transnational Image of Claim Making: The Kurds of Turkey and the Zapatistas of Mexico in Comparative Perspective

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The purpose of this article is to explore why and how some local armed uprisings are able to go global with a transnational image of 'social justice' while others fail to build such image despite becoming transnational. The cases to be analyzed in the article are the proKurdish mobilization in the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey and the pro-Mayan Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) movement in Mexico. In explaining the relative success of the latter, the study seeks to make connections with the globalization literature in general and the transnational social movement literature in particular. Particularly, the article focuses on the ability of social movements to market their causes in international arena with a good image. Overall, this study lays out several key strategic differences between the two movements such as the holding and the use of arms, duration of armed resistance, and the leadership and organizational structure to unpack why some social movements are more successful to market their causes as a just cause within 'global civil society' and why others fail to do so ending with being listed as a terrorist organization.

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The Kurdish Question and Turkey's Justice and Development Party

Cited by 53 publications

References 4 publications

Solidarity Among Strangers:A Problem of Coexistence in Turkey

Solidarity Among Strangers:A Problem of Coexistence in Turkey

The Influence of Presumed Media Influence on Strategic Voting

Local Armed Uprisings and the Transnational Image of Claim Making: The Kurds of Turkey and the Zapatistas of Mexico in Comparative Perspective

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