Husrev Tabak

The Kosovar Turks and Post-Kemalist Turkey (eBook, ePUB)

Foreign Policy, Socialization and Resistance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Even before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Turkic communities, living in states newly independent from Ottoman rule, were 'protected' by the Ottomans. With the creation of the new Turkish Republic, the notion of 'Outside Turks' became embedded in a new foreign policy which aimed to unite these communities, with whom Kemalist Turkey claimed to share ethnic origin, to the homeland. After 1980, and particularly during the Justice and Development Party rule, the country's domestic agenda, however, was transformed to imagine Outside Turks along cultural and religious lines, rather than in a purely ethnic sense. Husrev Tabak provides a foreign policy analysis to account for this vital shift, arguing that four post-Kemalist norms are responsible: Ottomania, de-ethnicized nationhood, Turkish Islam and Islamic Internationalism. By focusing on the case of the Kosovar Turks, the book reveals that the post-Kemalist move to re-imagine Outside Turkish communities was largely counterproductive. In losing Turkey as a secure point of reference for their ethnic identity, these communities began to fashion a nationalism which gained a reactionary character.The Kosovar Turks now more vehemently embrace Kemalist attitudes and discourses and their sense of Turkish ethnicity has been sharpened.
In tracing the impact of norm changes within Turkey on ethnic Turks beyond Turkey, the book illustrates the way in which domestic norms can be used as a significant foreign policy analysis tool. The Kosovar Turks and Post-Kemalist Turkey will therefore be essential reading for those interested in Turkey's foreign policy and post-Kemalism, as well as those researching the ongoing impact of the Ottoman Empire's multinational, multicultural legacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786720559
• Artikelnr.: 55354204

Autorenporträt

Husrev Tabak is currently Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey. He completed his PhD in Politics at the University of Manchester and his MA in Politics and Sociology at University College London. His publications include 'Islam, Nationalism and Kurdish Ethnopolitics in Turkey' in the Peace Review and the book chapter 'Manifestations of Islam in Turkey's Foreign Policy' in Turkey: Opportunities and Challenges.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Kemalist Outside Turks Policy Chapter 2: Post
Kemalist Outside Turks Policy Chapter 3: Overseas Implications of Domestic Norms Chapter 4: Outside Turks Locality in Kosovo
Making of Kosovar Turks Chapter 5: Emergence of Post
Kemalist Norms concerning Outside Turks Chapter 6: Cascade of Post
Kemalist Norms to Kosovo Chapter 7: Local Responses to Post
Kemalist Socialisation Conclusion