Discrimination and silence
Minority foundations in Turkey during the Cyprus conflict of 1974
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6305689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pinar Dinc (0000-0001-9731-2470, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Pinar Dinç Kenanoğlu (London School of Economics and Political Science UK) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 267-286 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nations and Nationalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1345-5078 • E-ISSN: 1469-8129 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2011.00531.x |
| OpenAlex | W1938741463 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
In 1974, the dispute between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus resulted in Turkish military intervention in the island. The same year, the Turkish Court of Cassation issued a legal decision that rendered possible the confiscation of properties belonging to minority foundations in the years to come. I argue that the case of minority foundations in 1974 was not a coincidence but a conscious reciprocal discrimination applied in both official and unofficial spheres. I support my argument with the following indicators: (1) the wider historical Greek–Turkish conflict and its ‘reciprocal’ nature of discrimination against non‐Muslim minorities; (2) the laden interpretation of the non‐Muslim minorities as the internal enemies in the Turkish mind‐set and its direct reflections on the 1974 case of foundations; and (3) the nature of the press coverage, which I assess using detailed reading and content analysis of three Turkish newspapers (H ürriyet, T ercüman, C umhuriyet) and one Rum minority newspaper (A poyevmatini
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Newspaper · Political science · Reciprocal · Silence · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society
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Citizenship in Diverse Societies
The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922
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Greek-Turkish Relations, 1973-1983
The Johnson letter revisited
International Protection of Minority Rights
Towards a theory of silence as a political strategy
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The Sociology of Discrimination
| 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 |