The limits of an ‘open mind’: state violence, Turkification, and complicity in the Turkish–Kurdish conflict

Protner, Beja

doi:10.1080/14683849.2018.1514494

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“…For example, the resistance that Kurds display over the years is delegitimized by a frame of “terrorism” through both military actions and political discourses as well as a supremacist assignment of “good” versus “bad” Kurds in instances of daily life (Kışlıoğlu & Cohrs, 2018; Uzun Avci, 2019). Therefore, when we speak of Turkish oppression/violence, we underline the perpetrators on both macro- (Turkish state and its accomplices) and meso-levels (Turkish public as a national group and its accomplices; e.g., Protner, 2018) unless we specify otherwise.…”

Section: Why and How Do We Do What We Do?mentioning

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“…Despite the major historical, geographical, sociocultural, and political differences between the “Global North” and Mesopotamia in making sense of racism and colonialism in the latter, there are also similarities, and CRT provides us an experiential ground to meet at the intersection of those similarities. Specifically, the expansive “assimilation or exclusion” and “denial”/“forgetting” strategies for preserving privileges used by the Turkish state have established a neocolonial Turkishness doctrine for rejecting Kurds’ demands for political, economic, social, and cultural rights (Bozarslan, 2008; Protner, 2018). This doctrine stretches beyond temporary political governments and establishes societal- and individual-level racism in every domain of life through unspoken contracts of Turkishness and (Sunni) Muslimness (Ünlü, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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“If I die, my children will pursue this case”: Counternarratives of power in Kurds.

Coskan¹,

Şen²

2023

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Despite hundreds of years of forced and violent assimilation from multiple sources, Kurds continue to exist as dissidents, progressing their ethnonational and cultural ways of being through an anticolonial resistance. Honoring the Kurdish existence by resistance, our motivation is to bring into light the “Kurdish power” that enables this kind of resistance within the Turkish nation-state borders. Guided by critical race theory and decolonial approach, we pursue Kurds’ counternarratives of power to dismantle the hegemonic representations of power and oppression while exposing systematic and systemic dynamics of racism. We interviewed 16 Kurds in Van and Istanbul, and we asked their understanding of power and their political reflections. By combining counternarrative and thematic analyses, we provide a multifocal, multisourced understanding of power, shaped around the multitudes of Kurdishness against Turkish oppression and violence. Counternarrators’ refusals of hegemonic oppression are intertwined with a strong belief in collectivity, a sense of nationhood is intertwined with multifragmentality, and imaginations of future are intertwined with agency, existence, and oppression.

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Section: Why and How Do We Do What We Do?mentioning

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“If I die, my children will pursue this case”: Counternarratives of power in Kurds.

Coskan¹,

Şen²

2023

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…Therefore, when we speak of Turkish oppression/violence, we underline the perpetrators on both macro-(Turkish state and its accomplices) and meso-(Turkish public as a national group and its accomplices) levels (e.g., Protner, 2018) unless we specify otherwise.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite the major historical, geographical, sociocultural and political differences between the 'Global North' and Mesopotamia in making sense of racism and colonialism in the latter, there are also similarities, and CRT provides us an experiential ground to meet at the intersection of those similarities. Specifically, the expansive 'assimilation or exclusion' and 'denial'/'forgetting' strategies for preserving privileges used by the Turkish state have established a neocolonial Turkishness doctrine for rejecting Kurds' demands for political, economic, social and cultural rights (Bozarslan, 2008;Protner, 2018). This doctrine stretches beyond temporary political governments and establishes societal and individual level racism in every domain of life through unspoken contracts of Turkishness and (Sunni) Muslimness (Ünlü, 2016).…”

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Counternarratives of Power in Kurds

Coskan¹,

Şen²

2022

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Despite hundreds of years of forced and violent assimilation from multiple sources, Kurds continue to exist as dissidents, progressing their ethnonational and cultural ways of being through an anticolonial resistance. Honoring the Kurdish existence by resistance, our motivation is to bring into light the ‘Kurdish power’ that enables this kind of resistance within the Turkish nation-state borders. Guided by critical race theory and decolonial approach, we pursue Kurds’ counternarratives of power to dismantle the hegemonic representations of power and oppression while exposing systematic and systemic dynamics of racism. We interviewed sixteen Kurds in Van and Istanbul and we asked their understanding of power and their political reflections. Combining counternarrative and thematic analyses, we provide a multifocal, multisourced understanding of power, shaped around the multitudes of Kurdishness against Turkish oppression and violence. Counternarrators’ refusals of hegemonic oppression are intertwined with a strong belief in collectivity, a sense of nationhood is intertwined with multifragmentality and imaginations of future are intertwined with agency, existence and oppression.

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“…. returned with unexpected intensity’ (Protner, 2018b). Turkey announced a military operation against PKK on 24 July 2015 and, as the operations continued, the images from the war began circulating on social media (İbrahimhakkıoğlu, 2018).…”

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Dehumanization on Twitter in the Turkish–Kurdish conflict

Tutkal¹

2020

Media, War & Conflict

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This article examines the dissemination of images of mutilated and humiliated dead bodies of ‘others’ and reactions of Twitter users to these images as dehumanizing practices. When the peace negotiations between the Turkish state and Kurdish PKK failed, numerous images of mutilated and humiliated dead bodies of PKK militants were disseminated by Twitter accounts apparently used by members of the Turkish security forces. The author focuses on two controversial cases from 2015 and immediate social media reactions to those images in order to demonstrate how dehumanization of Kurdish militants played out in the case of Turkey.

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The limits of an ‘open mind’: state violence, Turkification, and complicity in the Turkish–Kurdish conflict

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

“If I die, my children will pursue this case”: Counternarratives of power in Kurds.

“If I die, my children will pursue this case”: Counternarratives of power in Kurds.

Counternarratives of Power in Kurds

Dehumanization on Twitter in the Turkish–Kurdish conflict

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