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Construction of gender and national identity in Turkey: images of the first lady in the Turkish media (2002-7) / Cinar, Meral Ugur

Cinar, Meral Ugur	Journal Article
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2014.

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This article analyses the conception of womanhood and nationhood in Turkey through images of the First Lady in the media. It demonstrates that while there is a struggle between the secularist and Islamist media on issues such as Turkish national identity and public visibility, the secularist and Islamist discourses overlap when it comes to gender roles. In both cases, the private sphere is designated as the primary domain of women and the agency of women in the public sphere is limited by the symbolic duties they are expected to perform in accordance with the national imaginary.

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Turkey ; Nationhood ; Turkish National Identity ; First Lady ; Womanhood

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ID: 106288

Critical analysis of the Turkish press discourse against non-mu: a case analysis of the newspaper coverage of the 1942 wealth tax / Akan, Aysun

Akan, Aysun	Journal Article
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2011.

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This article deals with press coverage of the 1942 Wealth tax and focuses on the Turkish press's use of a discriminatory discourse against non-Muslim minorities to designate non-Muslims as other than Turkish. More specifically, this article analyses linguistic and discursive strategies adopted by the press in reporting on the Wealth tax. The press attempted to explain the tax on non-Muslims that aimed to liquidate non-Muslims' wealth as a tax that would establish social justice by making war profiteers and black-marketeers pay the government what was due. By adopting various linguistic devices and discursive strategies, the press played a significant role in the construction of meaning through a related set of assumptions about non-Muslims and Turkishness embedded within news reports on the Wealth tax. This critical analysis of power and inequality in language reveals the dominant discriminatory discourse of Turkish nationalism as manifested in the coverage of the Wealth tax and the role of the press in the reproduction of the hegemonic discourse connected to Turkish national identity and the criteria governing exclusion from it.

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Turkey ; Non - Muslims ; Turkish National Identity ; Turkish Press Discourse ; Discriminatory Discourse

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ID: 101827

Redefining the nation: shifting boundaries of the other in Greece and Turkey / Grigoriadis, Ioannis N

Grigoriadis, Ioannis N	Journal Article
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2011.

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While Greek and Turkish nationalisms have followed diverse historical paths, they share several features. Following the model of Zimmer, this study explores how inclusive and exclusive boundary mechanisms have shaped Greek and Turkish national identity and which symbolic resources were utilized in these processes. It is argued that a shift from the use of voluntaristic to that of organic boundary mechanisms has characterized both Greek and Turkish nationalisms and influenced the definition of national 'self' and 'other'. This study aims to track a pattern of historic-political conditions which favour a shift from voluntaristic towards organic models of defining the nation and discuss possible future trends.

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Turkey ; Greece ; Turkish Nationalisms ; Turkish National Identity

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ID: 180035

Who are we? and Who are they? the construction of Turkish national identity in textbooks within the context of the Turkish War o / Yılar, Murat Bayram; Çam, İrfan Davut

Yılar, Murat Bayram	Journal Article
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The purpose of this study is to analyse the construction of Turkish national identity as ‘we’ and ‘they’ in textbooks taught in the primary schools during the first years of the Republic of Turkey and the beginning of the 2000s in the context of narration of the Turkish War of Independence. The main material of the study consists of history and social studies textbooks. In this scope, four primary school history textbooks taught in the first years of the Republic of Turkey and four social studies textbooks taught at the primary school level at the beginning of the 2000s were selected. In selection of these textbooks care was taken to ensure that they were compliant with the curriculum in force at the time and that they were approved by the authorities responsible for education. Document analysis method was employed to gather subject data from the textbooks in question. The data gathered by this method were analysed using content analysis technique. The result of the analysis identified important and striking differences in the construction of Turkish national identity as ‘we’ and ‘they’ in the context of the Turkish War of Independence in textbooks from the two time periods.

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Turkish National Identity ; Turkish War of Independence

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