Through a Glass Darkly: Consequences of a Politicized Past in Contemporary Turkey

Göçek, Fatma Müge

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“…Turkey's narrative over the decades has been shaped by various degrees of official denial. The fate of Ottoman Armenians during World War I largely remained an unspoken subject in Turkey, a matter repressed and eliminated from the public memory, what many scholars describe as silent denialism (Gürpınar 2016;Üngör 2014;Göçek 2008Göçek , 2015Zarakol 2010). The assassination of thirty-one Turkish diplomats and family members in the 1970s generated curiosity within Turkey and sparked a wave of global interest in Turkey's past.…”

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Turkey’s “Apology” and Image Repair on the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide

Çevik

2022

Nationalities Papers

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Image and reputation are key factors in how nations are perceived by global audiences. Current and historical issues can pose as challenges to a nation’s reputation prompting the need to save face. The Armenian genocide is one of the most critical issues the Republic of Turkey has had to manage in terms of its global image and reputation. While the vast body of literature on the subject borrows from history and political science focusing on the mechanism of denial, this paper offers a communication framework to understand the rhetoric of Turkey’s image repair. Turkey’s crisis communication strategies vis-à-vis the centennial of the Armenian genocide are analyzed by employing Benoit’s image repair theory through a content analysis of official statements and declarations by the heads of state given in 2014 and 2015. In response to the emerging political crisis, the Turkish government primarily employed image repair strategies of evading responsibility and reducing offensiveness with the aim to appeal to international audiences.

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Turkey’s “Apology” and Image Repair on the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide

Çevik

2022

Nationalities Papers

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“…Having splintered in the mid-1970s from ‘urban Turkish Marxist-Leninist youth groups that engaged in political violence … [the PKK] largely crosscut the Turkish-Kurdish divide.’ 21 To tackle this violence, military expenditures were increased at a time when the Turkish economy was already relatively weak and very vulnerable. In fact, the rise of the PKK, together with the instabilities in Iraq, increased Turkey's military spending from $1.7 billion in 1989 to $7.2 billion in 2001 22 .…”

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Turkish Politics and Policies under the Impact of the 1980’s PKK Revolt and the Gulf War of the Early 1990s

Çanci

Şen

2012

European Review

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This article examines Turkish politics and policies during the 1980s and 1990s in light of occurrences in Turkey and neighboring states, with particular attention to the impact of the 1980’s PKK revolt and the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1990. In doing so, it outlines the political debates among the major political parties and the perspectives of the Turkish army generals on the important political issues of the period. These events, and those of the subsequent decade, have led to the emergence of a new status quo in Turkey that has had major political and economic repercussions.

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“… See Göçek () for the interdependency and intertwining of the contestations in Turkey over the Armenian genocide, Cyprus, and the Kurdish issue. …”

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Emotions and Nationalism: Armenian Genocide as a Case Study

Adar

2018

Sociological Forum

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Until recently, sociologists have paid surprisingly little attention to the relationship between emotions and nationalism. Existing accounts remain homogeneous, linear and nonrelational. To remedy this gap, this article compares public controversies in Turkey over the Armenian genocide at two historical moments: its semi‐centennial anniversary in 1965, and the publication of an article in 2004 by the Armenian‐Turkish journalist Hrant Dink that led to his assassination in 2007. It demonstrates that the genocide, and the conflicting epistemic structures that it incites, is a source of anxiety for Armenians due to their actual displacement within the nation. It is also a source of anxiety for Turks due to the perceived threat of displacement within the nation. These relational anxieties over the nation played an important role, during these two events, in reproducing hierarchical and exclusionary configurations, experiences, and representations of nationhood. During the 1965 semi‐centennial, Armenians reacted to the mainstream Turkish public's anxieties by pledging their loyalty to the state. Dink's assassination in 2007, on the other hand, showcases how an attempt by the excluded to redefine the what and who of the nation united otherwise separate social sections around a nationalist front.

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Through a Glass Darkly: Consequences of a Politicized Past in Contemporary Turkey

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

Turkey’s “Apology” and Image Repair on the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide

Turkey’s “Apology” and Image Repair on the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide

Turkish Politics and Policies under the Impact of the 1980’s PKK Revolt and the Gulf War of the Early 1990s

Emotions and Nationalism: Armenian Genocide as a Case Study

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