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ID078821
Title ProperLosing Control? A Comparison of Majority-Minority Relations in Israel and Turkey
LanguageENG
AuthorPeleg, Ilan ;  Waxman, Dov
Publication2007.
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article addresses the question of how multiethnic states can manage the relationship between the ethnic majority and the minority. It identifies a series of alternative strategies and methods and applies this classification to two states, Israel and Turkey. The article compares the approaches the two states have taken in dealing with their largest national minorities, and explains how and why these approaches have differed. The article demonstrates how Israel and Turkey adopted two fundamentally different regimes - a civic regime in the case of Turkey and an ethnic regime in the case of Israel - and two different policies towards the largest minority in their midst, assimilation in the case of the former and marginalization in the case of the latter. In both cases, however, the outcome of these policies has been confrontation between the national minority and the state and its ethnic majority. The article concludes by arguing that this similar outcome is due to both states' failure to adopt a genuinely accommodationist approach toward their national minorities
`In' analytical NoteNationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol. 13, No.3; Jul-Sep 2007: p431-464
Journal SourceNationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol. 13, No.3; Jul-Sep 2007: p431-464
Key WordsNational Minorities ;  Majority-Minority Relations in Israel and Turkey ;  Israel ;  Turkey