2012/02/21 by Pınar Dinç · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research #Turkey's Politics and Society #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Newspaper #Silence #Argument (complex analysis) #Interpretation (philosophy) #Reciprocal #Political science #Law #Sociology #Philosophy #Linguistics #Aesthetics
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1469-8129.2011.00531.x
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Abstract In 1974, the dispute between T urkey and G reece over C yprus resulted in T urkish military intervention in the island. The same year, the T urkish C ourt of C assation issued a legal decision that rendered possible the confiscation of properties belonging to minority foundations in the years to come. I argue that the case of minority foundations in 1974 was not a coincidence but a conscious reciprocal discrimination applied in both official and unofficial spheres. I support my argument with the following indicators: (1) the wider historical G reek– T urkish conflict and its ‘reciprocal’ nature of discrimination against non‐ M uslim minorities; (2) the laden interpretation of the non‐ M uslim minorities as the internal enemies in the T urkish mind‐set and its direct reflections on the 1974 case of foundations; and (3) the nature of the press coverage, which I assess using detailed reading and content analysis of three T urkish newspapers ( H ürriyet , T ercüman , C umhuriyet ) and one R um minority newspaper ( A poyevmatini ).