Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey |
| Editors | Nikos Christofis |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 11 |
| Pages | 200-215 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780429330216 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780367352509 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
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Conquering the state, subordinating society : a Kurdish perspective on the development of AKP authoritarianism in Turkey. / Jongerden, J.P.
Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey. ed. / Nikos Christofis. London : Routledge, 2020. p. 200-215.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
TY - CHAP
T1 - Conquering the state, subordinating society
T2 - a Kurdish perspective on the development of AKP authoritarianism in Turkey
AU - Jongerden, J.P.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The 2016 post-coup attempt measures in Turkey have been evaluated as a process of backsliding on civic rights and freedoms. This contribution takes a slightly different approach. The so-called democratic breakdown, or ‘backsliding’, in rights and freedoms should not be regarded as a (mere) attribute of the post-coup aftermath. The idea that a process of democratization in Turkey derailed or became disrupted after the coup only feeds the myth that there had been such a process of pre-coup democratization. In this article, it is argued that the reforms often held up as a ‘democratization’ were rather instruments opportunistically employed in the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP) struggle to conquer the state, to take it from a Kemalist elite and to roll back and contain a Kurdish movement that made pleas for a pluralistic citizenship and the strengthening of civil rights. These have now morphed into an overt authoritarianism, in which a regime of exceptions, not unknown to the Kurds and the Kurdistan region in Turkey, has become the norm, the particular generalised. This is what is referred to here as an ‘organizational coup’.
AB - The 2016 post-coup attempt measures in Turkey have been evaluated as a process of backsliding on civic rights and freedoms. This contribution takes a slightly different approach. The so-called democratic breakdown, or ‘backsliding’, in rights and freedoms should not be regarded as a (mere) attribute of the post-coup aftermath. The idea that a process of democratization in Turkey derailed or became disrupted after the coup only feeds the myth that there had been such a process of pre-coup democratization. In this article, it is argued that the reforms often held up as a ‘democratization’ were rather instruments opportunistically employed in the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP) struggle to conquer the state, to take it from a Kemalist elite and to roll back and contain a Kurdish movement that made pleas for a pluralistic citizenship and the strengthening of civil rights. These have now morphed into an overt authoritarianism, in which a regime of exceptions, not unknown to the Kurds and the Kurdistan region in Turkey, has become the norm, the particular generalised. This is what is referred to here as an ‘organizational coup’.
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780367352509
SP - 200
EP - 215
BT - Erdoğan’s ‘New’ Turkey
A2 - Christofis, Nikos
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -