Religious minorities in Turkey : Alevi, Armenians, and Syriacs and the struggle to desecuritize religious freedom /

This book considers the key issue of Turkey's treatment of minorities in relation to its complex paths of both European integration and domestic and international reorientation. The expectations of Turkey's EU and other international counterparts, as well as important domestic demands, hav...

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Main Authors: Bardakçı, Mehmet Necmettin, 1957- (Author), Freyberg-Inan, Annette (Author), Giesel, Christoph (Author), Leisse, Olaf (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- European integration and minority rights -- Securitization and desecuritization of minority rights -- The Alevi, the AKP government and the Alevi initiative -- The ambivalent situation of Turkey's Armenians: between collective historial trauma and psychological repression, loyal citizenship and minority status, social integration and discrimination, assimilation and self-assertion -- Like a drop in the ocean: the last Syriacs in Turkey in a maelstrom of nationalism, islamism, assimilation, and diverging socio-political interest -- General and comparative analysis -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Survey and interview questions -- Appendix B: Interviews with Alevi NGO leaders and experts -- Appendix C: Interviews with Armenian institutional representatives and activists -- Appendix D: Interviews with Syriac institutional representatives and activists -- Appendix E: Expert interviews. 
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