Turkey’s new identity revisited and its Islamist reflections in North Cyprus

Dayıoğlu, Ali; Köprülü, Nur

doi:10.1080/14683857.2019.1692443

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“…The quest for identity is so deeply entrenched in the collective psyche of Turkish Cypriots in the ongoing nation‐building project resting upon ethnolinguistically homogeneous ideals propagated by Turkey. Today, influenced mainly by Turkey's identity‐in‐transition spearheaded by the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP) ‘Justice and Development Party’ government in the last two decades (Dayıoğlu & Köprülü, 2019), the ideological divergences in the local sociopolitical context serve as significant fault lines and powerful forces swinging the educational pendulum in various directions. On the one end of this spectrum lies the right‐wing ideology, supported mainly by the ruling Ulusal Birlik Partisi (UBP) ‘National Unity Party,’ which prioritizes Turkishness in personal/national identity as in Türk ‘Turkish’ or Kıbrıs Türkü ‘Turkish Cypriot or Turk of Cyprus,’ views Cyprus as a post‐Ottoman land, defines the relations with Turkey based on anavatan‐yavruvatan ‘motherland’ (Turkey)–babyland (Northern Cyprus) discourse, and supports the two‐state solution based on the sovereign equality of communities in the Kıbrıs Meselesi ‘Cyprus issue.’ On the other end of the spectrum lies the left‐wing ideology, mainly supported by the Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi (CTP) ‘Republican Turkish Party,’ which prioritizes Cypriotness in personal/national identity as in Kıbrıslı ‘Cypriot’ or Kıbrıslı Türk ‘Cypriot Turk,’ adopts the Kemalist values of secularism, modernization, and Westernization (but not Turkish nationalism), resists the hyper‐influence of Turkey as a form of Turkish colonization, ‘Turkification,’ or ‘Anatolianization’ (Hatay, 2009) with a potential to eradicate civic identity (Cypriotness), and supports (bicommunal/bizonal) united federal solution in the Kıbrıs sorunu ‘Cyprus question.’ Tracing the role, importance, status, and function of English in different aspects of life, including education, reveals the unique nature of the Turkish Cypriot context.…”

Section: The Contemporary Educational Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

English in Northern Cyprus: A sociolinguistic profile

Selvi

Silman‐Karanfil²

2022

World Englishes

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Much has been written and said about the roles, functions, and status of English and its diverse implications in local contexts and for people therein. However, Northern Cyprus stands out as a ‘blind spot’ as it is often annexed in studies related to Turkey or diluted within discussions focusing on Cyprus – which collectively leads to limited, partial, and tangential accounts of the complexities embedded in the local context. Departing from this premise, the current paper offers a comprehensive sociolinguistic profile of English in Northern Cyprus. More specifically, it portrays a historical account of the sociolinguistic situation with present‐day connections to statuses, roles, attitudes, functions, domains, policies, and practices in the local context. It is concluded that as the island morphed first into a postcolonial context and later into a partitioned sociopolitical entity, the linguacultural hegemony of English remained in Turkish Cypriots’ linguistic repertoires, collective psyche, and educational curricula.

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Section: The Contemporary Educational Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%