From Exit to Voice
Reflections on Exile through the Accounts of Turkey’s Intelligentsia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12980687 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Baser (0000-0002-8583-5909, Durham University, corresponding author), Ahmet Erdi Öztürk (0000-0003-1749-6682, London Metropolitan University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 401-415 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle East Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1943-6149 • E-ISSN: 1943-6157 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19436149.2022.2132193 |
| OpenAlex | W4304005687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 26 |
The authoritarian turn in Turkey compelled many citizens to change life trajectories which included extreme measures such as migration and exile. Thousands of people left Turkey in the last decade, this recent wave constituting one of the largest Turkish migrations to Europe and beyond. The profile of the migrants included those who were comfortable with and/or opposed the current regime's political and social policies, members of oppressed minority groups, G ulen movement members who are accused of orchestrating the failed 2016 coup attempt as well as white collar and secular Turkish citizens who made lifestyle migration choices because of the political and economic developments in the country. The article focuses on the narratives of a specific group within this new wave, those whom we refer to as Turkey's intelligentsia in exile, and who decided to leave Turkey following the Gezi protests in 2013. The findings are based on 25 interviews conducted in 2021 with former academics, activists, artists, journalists and politicians who migrated to a variety of locations as a result of pending trials or arrest warrants against them, dehumanization discourse that pro-regime politicians directed toward them, as well as lack of freedom of speech and assembly
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Intelligentsia · Media studies · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turkish · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Turkey's Politics and Society
Turkish families settling in Europe
Restricted learning, engaged students. Understanding the effects of academic freedom violations on youth education and activism
Democratic Backsliding and the Politics of Exit
We Are Exactly Like the White Émigrés 100 Years Ago’
Narratives of sacrifice and aspiration
Compelled exile performances
From Moral Indignation to Affective Citizenship
The frontier of loyalty
The Politics of Exile in Latin America
Conquering the state and subordinating society under AKP rule
Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness
De l'exil à la diaspora
From ‘Diaspora by Design’ to Transnational Political Exile
Positive and Negative Diaspora Governance in Context
Academics for Peace” in Turkey
Liberal intellectuals’’ narration of the justice and development party in Turkey
Referendum Campaigns in Polarized Societies
The AKP and the spirit of the ‘new’ Turkey
Afghan Refugee Journeys
Pity the Exiled
Critical Junctures of Securitisation
Turkey – from tutelary to delegative democracy
Islamisation of Turkey under the AKP Rule
Diasporas and International Relations Theory
Heroes, villains and celebritisation of politics
Explanations of Institutional Change
Diasporas in Modern Societies
Securing the diasporic 'self' by travelling abroad
Transnational Childhoods
| Citations per year | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |