Professional paper
New Turkey's Other Turks Abroad: Erdoğan Regime's Kin-State Policy in North Macedonia
Abdullah Sencer Gözübenli
orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-7407
; Åbo Akademi University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics, and Law, Turku, Finland
Abstract
In post-imperial kin-states, the combination of authoritarian rule and selective historical memory in home-states of their kin-minorities leads to a dangerous brand of ethnic politics. Turkey has trouble defining both its kin societies in the Balkans and the policies directed at them. Nonetheless, Erdoğan's kin-state actions since his ruling party came into power in 2002 divide and polarize Balkan Turks and Muslims. In this respect, this article builds on how the religious-oriented and political polarization exported from the kin-state affects the national identity of its kin-minority in ethnically divided society, in the context of Rogers Brubaker's well-known triadic nexus. This article aims to take a brief look at the division and polarization of Balkan Turks and Muslims, especially in North Macedonia, which emerged as a result of Turkey’s transnational identity policies.
Keywords
kin-politics; Turkey; North Macedonia; national Identity; kin-state; political polarization
Hrčak ID:
306156
URI
Publication date:
15.7.2023.
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