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    <description>European journal of Turkish studies a pour vocation d’être un instrument pour les chercheurs en sciences sociales travaillant sur la Turquie contemporaine. La revue est organisée autour d’un dossier thématique, formule qui permet de donner une cohérence intellectuelle aux numéros et de rendre compte des nouveaux enjeux de la recherche. Dans un souci d’ouverture internationale, les articles sont rédigés dans l’une des quatre langues de travail : allemand, anglais, français ou turc. Des résumés en anglais les accompagnent.</description>
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      <title>Differences in role orientation among Turkish MPs</title>
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        <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Studies on Turkish MPs have often focused on aggregate data. However, the differences in behaviour and style of individual MPs are a dimension of Turkish political life familiar even to the occasional observer. It seems important to try to grasp these differences in terms of parliamentary roles.</p>
        <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Because the study of parliamentary roles has mainly developed in Western legislatures and more specifically in the US, parliamentary roles have often been defined referring to the US model. More recently, alternative role models have been developed for European countries (Searing (1994) for Great Britain, Andeweg (1997) for the Netherlands). It seems interesting to ask the same questions for Turkey, taking into account the specificities of its institutional system. However, there are few studies devoted to political roles in Turkey (Kalaycıoğlu 1995). It would, therefore, seem too ambitious to develop an alternative model of roles in the limited scope of this study. Rather, we shall address the</p> (...)]]>
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      <author>ejts@revues.org (Elise Massicard)</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Assimilation of the Muslim communities in the first decade of the Turkish Republic (1923-1934) </title>
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        <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Forced migration became one of the major instruments for the homogenization of the population in the late Ottoman Empire, and the interwar Turkey. After the compulsory exchange of minority populations with Greece, the population was far more homogeneous in terms of religious composition (Toprak 1998: 1-2). The deportation of Armenian<a id="idx0"></a> population in 1915 under the rule of Committee of Union and Progress<a id="idx1"></a> (CUP) and the mass exodus of Greek<a id="idx2"></a> population during and after the War of Independence had been earlier catastrophic developments in this respect (Akçam 1997, McCarty 1998: 335-345).</p>
        <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Yet the relevance of population movements for the goals of nation-building was not confined to the policy of expulsion exercised upon the non-Muslim populace. Migration became central to the nationalization policies of Turkey not only as a refugee producing process but also as a refugee incorporation device, which concerned overwhelmingly the question of how to unify the ethnically, culturally and linguistical</p> (...)]]>
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      <author>ejts@revues.org (Erol Ülker)</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Temps et contretemps d’une européanisation. Le cas du mouvement contre l’exploitation aurifère en Egée du nord</title>
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        <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Les relations entre la Turquie et l’Union européenne sont fondamentales pour comprendre l’action collective en Turquie depuis la période post-coup d’Etat de 1980. Elles présentent, pour les acteurs turcs, un ensemble d’opportunités (au sens le plus large du terme) et sont, bien plus que les mouvements sociaux, à l’origine des principales modifications du contexte politique turc. Néanmoins, le recours à l’Europe, qui peut prendre des formes multiples, n’est ni une évidence ni l’assurance pour les acteurs d’atteindre leurs objectifs ou de consolider leurs positions. Nous proposons dans cette contribution d’étudier les différents usages qui ont pu être faits de l’Europe dans le cas du mouvement contre l’exploitation aurifère en Egée du nord. Ce mouvement s’est décliné en deux séries de mobilisations, celles de Küçükdere contre le projet de Tüprag (firme dont les capitaux sont détenus par la société allemande Preussag) et celles des villages autour de Bergama contre Eurogold (firme aux cap</p> (...)]]>
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      <author>ejts@revues.org (Emre Öngün)</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>The Invention of a Tradition:Diyarbakır’s Dengbêj Project</title>
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        <p class="texte" dir="ltr">This paper analyses the formation of a ‘Kurdish tradition’ at the cross-roads of various initiatives by Kurdish national(ist) and government actors, focusing mainly on the contemporary dengbêj [Kurdish singer] project, which was carried out within the auspices of the Diyarbakır municipality, one of the biggest cities in southeast Turkey. This project involved a number of different state offices and openly pro-Kurdish non-state actors, working <span style="color:#000000;">–</span>at least on paper<span style="color:#000000;">–</span>in cooperation with each other.</p>
        <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Led by the pro-Kurdish Diyarbakır Municipality and the Diyarbakır-based cultural centre Dicle-Fırat Kültür Merkezi, the <em>Dengbêj ve Dengbêjlik Geleneği</em> [Dengbêj and Dengbêjî Tradition] project was funded by the European Union’s Grant scheme for the promotion of cultural rights in Turkey. The scheme aimed to ‘support and enrich the daily usage of languages and dialects other than Turkish.’ It helped develop various projects around Turkey that dealt with cultures associated with ‘non-Turkish languages</p> (...)]]>
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      <author>ejts@revues.org (Clémence Scalbert Yücel)</author>
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      <title>Kurdish Nationalism and Identity in Turkey: A Conceptual Reinterpretation</title>
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        <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Writing in 1977, George Harris observed that ‘serious Kurdish conflict, therefore, now appears to be a thing of the past’ (Harris 1977: 124). Yet Kurdish nationalism has proved to be a resilient and resourceful force. Paralleling the rise of militant Kurdish mobilization in Turkey and the formation of an embryonic Kurdish state in North Iraq has been the proliferation of scholarly interest in Kurdish identity. In this article, I take a critical look at several assumptions underlying the current scholarship on Kurdish nationalism. Primarily, I question those analysts who rely on two principal dichotomies: the dichotomy of ethnic nationalism versus civic nationalism and the dichotomy of state versus society. Neither of these two approaches adequately captures the richness and ambiguity of Kurdish political identity in Turkey. Also, I suggest organizations rather than ethnic groups should be the focus of scholarly analysis. Finally, I argue that those studies which operate wit</p> (...)]]>
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      <author>ejts@revues.org (Güneş Murat Tezcür)</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Crafting Space, Making People: The Spatial Design of Nation in Modern Turkey</title>
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        <p class="texte" dir="ltr">This article is concerned with the contemporary expression of a particular form of nation-building and identity politics, namely the molding of state-society relations and Turkishness through spatial means. Two cases will be discussed, the first focusing on plans for the reconstruction of physical space, in particular the design of villages and rural settlement patterns, the second on the attachment of values and meaning given to space by means of naming practices, in particular the naming and renaming of settlements and public spaces in urban environments. While the first case has an emphasis on the construction of physical space, the second focuses mainly on discursive space. The ultimate aim of these spatial practices, it will be argued, is the construction of a material and discursive environment contributing to the engineering of lived experience, expressed in the 1930s by the architect Abdullah Ziya in terms of the nationalist need to construct villages in such a way</p> (...)]]>
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      <author>ejts@revues.org (Joost Jongerden)</author>
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      <title>States at the Limit: Tracing Contemporary State-Society Relations in the Borderlands of Southeastern Turkey</title>
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        <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Ali lives in an Arabic speaking village of the Harran plain and owns a small plot of land with his brother (17 decares). The brothers recount that they have had difficulty with weeds this year. Ali suggests that this is due to the fact that they haven’t rotated their crops. His brother disagrees, and says it is because the state subsidy for pesticides associated with cotton is insufficient, so they only had enough money to apply pesticides once. Despite these problems, they consider themselves to have benefited tremendously from irrigation. ‘With one year’s harvest, I now earn enough to buy a tractor,’ Ali says, explaining that ‘culture’ and ‘development’ have also come to rural areas with state irrigation provision.  </p>
        <p class="texte" dir="ltr">Amit lives in a Kurdish-speaking village a few miles to the west of Ali. As someone who does not own land and who had previously been engaged in herding sheep and goats on the plain, he and his family have very different experiences of irrigation. He explains, ‘It was sai</p> (...)]]>
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      <author>ejts@revues.org (Leila M. Harris)</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Experiencing Justice and Imagining State: Engaging the Law to Challenge the Rule of Exception in Tunceli</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[]]></description><author>ejts@revues.org (Marie Le Ray)</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Contesting the ‘Truth’ of Turkey’s Human Rights Situation: State-Association Interactions in and Outside the Southeast</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[]]></description><author>ejts@revues.org (Marlies Casier)</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re-Considering State-Society Dynamics in Turkey’s Kurdish Southeast</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[]]></description><author>ejts@revues.org (Nicole F. Watts)</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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