Kaliber, Alper and Whiting, Matthew (2023) Engaging minorities under emergency:Turkish modular emergency and the Kurdish case revisited. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies. ISSN 1468-3857
Abstract
Minorities are particularly vulnerable during times of emergency, particularly those that challenge the state. However, it is not understood how minorities can be targeted through emergency decrees despite the government agreeing they had nothing to do with the reasons for declaring the state of emergency. The Turkish emergency in 2016 highlights this little-understood tendency where the government constructed an emergency around a threat from coup plotters, but then much of the subsequent extraordinary legislation targeted the Kurdish minority. We argue that this was possible because the Turkish government engaged in modular emergency rule. Modular emergency rule combines modes of ordinary rule with emergency powers, thus blurring the boundaries between the two. Emergency measures were laid on top of already existing policies that sought to restrict Kurdish politics in public life. In this way, modular emergency rule became more than just a transient form of government.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | state of emergency,Kurds,minorities,Turkey |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) The University of York > Research Groups (York) > Centre for Applied Human Rights (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 10 Feb 2023 10:00 |
Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:18 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2023.2170725 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14683857.2023.2170725 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:196272 |
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