From system integration to social integration: Kurdish challenge to Turkish republicanism

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dc.authoridTuran, Omer/0000-0001-9545-3843
dc.contributor.authorBoyraz, Cemil
dc.contributor.authorTuran, Omer
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:48:51Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:48:51Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe modern republican history of Turkey and its relation with the question of ethnic diversity could be understood via the tension between the processes of system integration and social integration. This article, based on Jurgen Habermas' conceptual framework, draws the sources of such tension with reference to the Kurdish identity in Turkey since the early republican era. For this purpose, from the 1920s to the 2000s, policies and discourses of system integration aiming at a certain degree of ethnic homogenization to eliminate possible threats' to territorial integrity and national unity are discussed in detail. While system integration processes reflect an exclusionary and assimilative-securitist logic of state practices regarding the Kurdish question, this article argues that the Kurdish challenge to republicanism and to its system integration logic promises more for the dynamics of social integration. Especially since the 1990s, while processes of system integration are still in force; national, regional and diasporic achievements of Kurdish politics and its call for a democratic transformation of the republic based on decentralist, participatory and multiculturalist values have become much more visible. This new focus on democratic transformation demands more for social integration through internalization of roles as well as through promotion of an active communication between citizens by raising the claims of active participation to social and political spheres as well as by making identity visible in different aspects of socio-cultural life. Degree of social integration and its success vis-a-vis system integration will be decisive in the democratic transformation of Turkey in the future.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0191453715623832
dc.identifier.endpage418en_US
dc.identifier.issn0191-4537
dc.identifier.issn1461-734X
dc.identifier.issue4.Mayen_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84964211785en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage406en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0191453715623832
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/7978
dc.identifier.volume42en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000374792500008en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Incen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPhilosophy & Social Criticismen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectJurgen Habermasen_US
dc.subjectKurdish Political Movementen_US
dc.subjectRepublicanism İn Turkeyen_US
dc.subjectSocial İntegrationen_US
dc.subjectSystem İntegrationen_US
dc.titleFrom system integration to social integration: Kurdish challenge to Turkish republicanismen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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