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Authoritarianism and necropolitical creation of martyr icons by Kemalists and Erdoganists in Turkey / Yilmaz, Ihsan; Erturk, Omer

Yilmaz, Ihsan	Journal Article
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One of the most widely used and influential ways of creating foundational myths for authoritarian legitimation is to construct a necropolitical narrative around the significance of dying for the nation, homeland, state and the leader, i.e. martyrdom. Mbembe’s concept ‘necropolitics’ (the right of the sovereign to determine who shall live and who shall die) has been expanded to include the pollical instrumentalization of martyrdom narratives. However, the literature has not analyzed the necropolitical martyr-icons. This paper aims to address this gap by looking at two historical episodes in Turkey, one in the 1930s dominated by secularists and post-2016 dominated by Islamists.

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Authoritarianism ; Islamism ; Martyrdom ; AKP ; Mythmaking ; Necropolitics

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Playing the EU: the logic of mythmaking in Bulgaria's foreign policy toward Central Asia / Kavalski, Emilian

Kavalski, Emilian	Journal Article
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2010.

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This essay examines the domestic logic informing the creation of Bulgaria's foreign policy. It contextualizes inferences made from Bulgaria's diplomatic attempt to "play the EU" during the visit by the Bulgarian minister of foreign affairs to Central Asia in September 2007. Inferences of the national narratives of Bulgaria's international involvement are contextualized to suggest that domestically the Europeanization of Bulgarian foreign policy has been preoccupied with negotiating the conflict between state and nation. A report on Central Asia indicates that the logic of mythmaking informs the domestic articulation of the foreign policy stance coming from Sofia, Bulgaria's capital, not only toward neighboring countries (where it might be expected, as has been well documented) but also toward regions that are not geographically proximate. Inferences are contextualized by the national narratives of Bulgaria's international involvement. Such positions suggest that domestically the Europeanization of Bulgarian foreign policy has been preoccupied with negotiating conflict between state and nation.

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European Union ; EU ; Central Asia ; Bulgaria ; Mythmaking ; Foreign Policy

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