Containing Ethnic Conflict
Repression, Cooptation, and Identity Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6248013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ceren Belge, Semuhi Sinanoglu (0000-0003-1964-1054) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 765-786 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4159 • E-ISSN: 2151-6227 |
| Publisher | Comparative Politics CUNY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5129/001041522x16364817575110 |
| OpenAlex | W4206569446 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Why do states target some civilians with collective punishment while coopting others with material goods during an ethnic civil war? This article examines how the Turkish government calibrated its repression and cooptation policies towards the Kurdish population during the counterinsurgency of the 1990s. In contrast to the situational conflict dynamics emphasized by the civil war literature, we explain the distribution of cooptation and repression with the state's identity policy: government policies were more punitive in areas that displayed strong Kurdish linguistic/political identity, or high tribal concentration, while they were more cooptative where the government had fostered a Sunni-Muslim Kurdish identity. The study is based on a novel dataset that includes information about displacement, tribal concentration, and violent events from archival sources
Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics · Identity (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Punitive damages · Sociology · State (computer science · Turkish · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Turkey's Politics and Society
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Civilian Victimization and the Politics of Information in the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
Female Combatants and the Perpetration of Violence
Militias in Civil Wars
Weakening the Enemy
Does Indiscriminate Violence Incite Insurgent Attacks
Civilianizing Civil Conflict
Explaining Population Displacement Strategies in Civil Wars
Progovernment Militias
Violence Against Civilians During Armed Conflict
Rebel capability and strategic violence against civilians
Armed Groups and Sexual Violence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |