{"id":8664,"date":"2021-01-20T10:15:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T08:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2021-12-13T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T11:14:46","slug":"taskin-ozer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/taskin-ozer\/","title":{"rendered":"“Political Rights and Behavior of the Non-Muslim Minorities in Turkey under the High Polarized Politics”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Research Proposal<\/span>Conference<\/span>Short bios<\/span><\/div>
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Summary of the Research Proposal<\/h4>\n

The aim of this proposal is to examine how do the non-Muslim minorities in Turkey, develop new ways to protect and enjoy their minority rights since 2013 in a politically atmosphere polarized between the incumbent and opposition parts and now reflected to the electoral alliances.<\/p>\n

Considering the increasing political polarization in Turkey since 2013 mainly constructed on identities due to the several political and social events such as Gezi Events, terrorist bombings, presidential elections and military uprising, this research focuses on the political behavior of the non-Muslim minorities in Turkey to understand how they develop creative solutions in protecting their collective and individual rights. How do the minority communities perceive the increasing political polarization which targets them \u2018the other\u2019 twice and limits their room for political participation to express their rights and demands?<\/p>\n

The fact that there are minority deputies with different party tickets in the Turkish parliament since 2015 makes this research crucial to explore the political behavior and preferences of the minority groups through face-to-face interviews with each communities\u2019 prominent actors (politicians, journalists, academics) and surveys with the group members to acknowledge whether they prefer to align with the pro-Islamist incumbent party; have a block vote for the secular parties which are more close to their life-style; or vote for the parties that nominate minority candidates.<\/p>\n

Besides recording the effectiveness of the minority deputies in terms of their field-work in the Turkish assembly, interviews to be conducted with the minority deputies also aim to enlighten the discourse these communities adopted: demand for the collective rights of the minority groups or a struggle for general political and civic rights considering the whole society- especially the opposition. The proposed research will also measure the impact of Turkey\u2019s recent bilateral tensions with the minority groups\u2019 kin-states (namely Greece, Armenia and Israel) and president Erdo\u011fan\u2019s much debated policies such as reopening of Hagia Sophia and Chora museums as mosques in summer 2020 on these communities\u2019 attitudes towards the Turkish state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Online Conference
\nPolitical Rights and Behaviour of Non-Muslim Minorities in Turkey under Highly Polarized Politics<\/h4>\n

This conference is organized by Utku \u00d6zer and Burcu Ta\u015fk\u0131n within the context of their research project \u201cPolitical Rights and Behavior of the Non-Muslim Minorities in Turkey under the High Polarized Politics\u201d, which is supported by the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) for the year 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n

16 December 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

The conference will be held via Zoom:
\nhttps:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/85966166268?pwd=K3ZsU3ljY2xTNU1NRUwxTHBnYjlhdz09<\/a>
\nMeeting ID: 859 6616 6268
\nPasscode: 008720<\/p>\n

Facebook Event<\/a><\/p>\n

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Program<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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13:00-13:20 (Athens time) <\/strong><\/p>\n

14:00-14:20 <\/strong>(Istanbul time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome and Introduction<\/p>\n

Dr. Despoina Valatsou, Research Centre for the Humanities & Athens School of Fine Arts<\/p>\n

Utku \u00d6zer & Burcu Ta\u015fk\u0131n, Panteion University & Istanbul Medeniyet University<\/p>\n

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13:20-13:40 (Athens time) <\/strong><\/p>\n

14:20-14:40 (Istanbul time)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

P\u0131nar Uyan- Semerci, Istanbul Bilgi University<\/p>\n

\u201cDimensions of Polarization in Turkey\u201d<\/p>\n

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13:40-14:00 (Athens time) <\/strong><\/p>\n

14:40-15:00 (Istanbul time)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Burak Cop, \u00a0Bah\u00e7e\u015fehir University<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decline of authoritarian populism & the limits of social polarization in Turkey\u201d<\/p>\n

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14: 00-14:30 (Athens time) <\/strong><\/p>\n

15.00-15.30(Istanbul time)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Questions and Discussion<\/p>\n

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14:30-14:50 (Athens time) <\/strong><\/p>\n

15:20-15:50 (Istanbul time)\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Break<\/p>\n

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14:50-15:10 (Athens time) <\/strong><\/p>\n

15:50-16:10<\/strong> (Istanbul time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Selina Do\u011fan, lawyer, \u015ei\u015fli municipality council member and ex-CHP deputy<\/p>\n

\u201cPresence and Impact of the Minorities in Turkey in the Public Sphere\u201d<\/p>\n

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15:10-15:30 (Athens time) <\/strong><\/p>\n

16:10-16:30 (Istanbul time)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ioannis Grigoriadis, Bilkent University, chief editor Eliamep<\/p>\n

“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Case of Turkey’s Greek Minority”<\/p>\n

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15:30-15:50 (Athens time) <\/strong><\/p>\n

16:30-16:50 (Istanbul time)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Utku \u00d6zer & Burcu Ta\u015fk\u0131n,<\/p>\n

\u201cWeakened Political Institutions vs. Strengthened Visibility of Minorities\u201d<\/p>\n

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15:50-16:20 (Athens time) <\/strong><\/p>\n

16:50-17:20<\/strong> (Istanbul time) <\/strong><\/p>\n

Questions and Discussion<\/p>\n

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Conference Program (PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Conference Poster (PDF<\/a>, PNG<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Born in Istanbul in 1982, Burcu Ta\u015fk\u0131n<\/strong> graduated from Sabanc\u0131 University with a bachelor’s degree in Economics in 2005 and a master’s degree in Political Science in 2007. After completing the Southeast European Studies Master’s program at the University of Athens in 2008, she received her PhD in Political Science from Istanbul Bilgi University in 2014. Since 2015, she is an Assistant Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, discipline of Comparative Politics.<\/p>\n

Her areas of interest are political representation of minorities, democratization, gender studies, voter behaviour, Turkish\u2013Greek relations, and Balkan politics. She is the author of the book Political Representation of Minorities in Greece and Turkey: Nationalism, Reciprocity and Europeanization<\/em>, released on March 2019 by Libra Publisher.\u00a0 She has published several related articles at the journals such as Turkish Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Open Gender Journal, Southeast European and Blacksea Studies, Regional and Federal Studies.<\/p>\n

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Born in Istanbul in 1982, Utku \u00d6zer<\/strong> graduated from Istanbul University with bachelor\u2019s degree in International Relations. She had her masters\u2019 degree in International Relations in 2006 at Marmara University with a dissertation on the dynamics of post-Soviet nation-building. She received her PhD in International Relations from Istanbul University in 2012 with a dissertation titled The Role of Nationalism in the Disintegration and the Reformation of the Empires: The Examples of Ottoman Empire and Russian Empire. <\/em>She has worked as a research assistant at Maltepe University, Department of International Relations and European Union between 2009 and 2012 and then as an assistant professor at the same university between 2012 and 2015. She was later an assistant professor at Gaziantep University for a year until 2016, when she moved to Greece for her postdoctoral studies. She has taught courses on History of Political Thought,\u00a0 Political Ideologies, Political Thought in Turkey, History of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish Foreign Policy, Humanities, Political History, Nationalism, and Balkans. Some of her areas of interest are nationalism, identity, history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, history of Russia, Turkish-Russian relations, Turkish-Greek relations,\u00a0 and Balkan politics. She has several articles, book chapters and presentations in related topics.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-the-social-world-diversity-institutions-and-values"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9451,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions\/9451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rchumanities.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}