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Pinar Dinc, photo.

Pinar Dinc

Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

Pinar Dinc, photo.

The semantics and substance of contesting Turkishness in the diaspora

Author

  • Pinar Dinc

Editor

  • Dalia Abdelhady
  • Ramy Aly

Summary, in English

The aim of this chapter is twofold. First, it deliberates the insufficiency of the ethnically loaded hyphenated identity of ‘Euro-Turks’ in defining the diverse diasporic community of Turkey’s citizens and/or their descendants in Europe. Second, it lays out the advantages and disadvantages of using the Türkiyeli concept as an alternative to the hyphenated identity Euro-Turks, which allows peoples and observers of Turkey to acknowledge and emphasise the heterogeneity of Turkey’s diasporas in Europe. In doing so, the analysis shows that the Türkiyeli identity was already introduced by Turkey’s leftist diaspora groups in Europe from the late 1960s, but has since been contested by Turkey’s different diaspora groups on the one hand, and lost in translation when converted into other languages (i.e. English, French and German) on the other.

Department/s

  • Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

159-170

Publication/Series

Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • International Migration and Ethnic Relations
  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Status

Published