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- Title
THE RISE OF IDENTITY POLITICS IN TURKEY.
- Authors
Bacik, Gokhan
- Abstract
In this article I use identity politics as the survey of how the various group identities affect political processes in Turkey. The methodological survey of identity politics in this chapter has two facets: First, how Turkey deals with the identity issue, given its tens of different ethnic and religious groups; and second how identity groups (ethnic and religious) articulate their political ideas. In this article, it is argued that a passive analysis of identity groups is not methodologically correct. Rather, the causal link between those groups and politics has to be identified and carefully analysed. A dynamic analysis, on which the various groups are treated as interest-seeking agents set against the state, is logical also in view of the new state-society formula of the post-Cold War era.
- Subjects
TURKEY; IDENTITY politics; TURKISH politics &; government, 1980-; POLITICAL participation; GROUP identity; POLITICAL science research
- Publication
UNISCI Discussion Papers, 2010, Issue 23, p47
- ISSN
1696-2206
- Publication type
Article