The liberals saw themselves as mediators between different communitiesīut also sought to advance their own political vision. The fostering of pluralism was a principal concern but they were also wary ofĮngaging with actors they perceived as non-democratic.
They wavered between basing their actions on the principle of rightsĪnd a pragmatic approach to advance their agenda. Others but were simultaneously critical of identity politics. Overcoming of nationalism was a primary objective they also sought to reformulate the nation. Normalization was a central term in the liberals’ rhetoric and was also a process they contributed to. The liberal intellectuals’ engagement and how these can be generalized as intrinsic ambiguities in the politics of human rightsĬlaiming. Six central tensions are discussed that run through
Of the state and upend official state ideology and are thus human rights claims. The critique of the Turkish political structureĪnd its historical roots, the rendering visible of suppressed cultural identities and historic events, and the active participation ofĬitizens in the discussion of all three themes were for the discursive community of liberal intellectuals ways to challenge the rights The term ‘infrastructure of human rights claiming’ is proposed toĭenote the variety of institutions that enable rights and identity claims to be made. That is not limited to the explicit language of human rights. History, cultural sociology, and political theory, a way to study human rights claiming in concrete empirical contexts is developed Using concepts and perspectives from the disciplines of Theory of Claude Lefort who construes human rights as the generative principle of democracy and places political action andĬontestation of power at the center of the definition of human rights. Although most of these actions did not occur with an explicit reference to human rights, theĪctivities of the discursive community of liberal intellectuals are analyzed as a form of human rights claiming, based on the political
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For the liberal intellectuals these themes were part ofĬommon broader objectives: to open up the space for free deliberation, to advance meanings not conforming to state ideology, and Regarding the Armenian Genocide, the liberal intellectuals took significant steps to establish the genocide as a TurkishĬultural trauma in order to rewrite the foundational narrative of Turkey. Kurdish nationalism while promoting the claim that the Kurdish issue should be solved within the framework of TurkishĬitizenship. Concerning the Kurdish conflict, the liberal intellectuals tried to create spaces beyond both Turkish and Intellectuals’ narrative and how they construed the central sociopolitical dynamics illuminate why they endorsed the Islamic Turkey’s past and future that structured their historical orientation and their choice of action and platforms. The interviews conducted with individual liberal intellectuals demonstrate the broader narratives of Reports, and manifestos – and the institutions they used shows how an effective counter-public could take shape in relation to the TheĪnalysis of diverse texts published by the interconnected intellectuals – newspaper columns, academic articles, policy papers, This dissertation examines the public interventions, rhetoric, and actions of liberal intellectuals in Turkey between the early 1990sĪnd 2012 regarding the rights of Kurdish and Islamic actors and restrictions on discussing the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
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