Webbläsaren som du använder stöds inte av denna webbplats. Alla versioner av Internet Explorer stöds inte längre, av oss eller Microsoft (läs mer här: * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Var god och använd en modern webbläsare för att ta del av denna webbplats, som t.ex. nyaste versioner av Edge, Chrome, Firefox eller Safari osv.

Pinar Dinc, foto.

Pinar Dinc

Docent | Universitetslektor

Pinar Dinc, foto.

From resolution to resecuritization: populist communication of the AKP’s Kurdish peace process in Turkey

Författare

  • Pinar Dinc
  • Ozge Ozduzen

Summary, in English

This article contributes to the existing literature on the populist online communication of governments. We look at the role of the micro-blogging social media platform Twitter under the authoritarian rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the wider Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi; AKP) during the peace process. We carried out a rhetorical analysis of the Twitter posts of four key AKP actors – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Ahmet Davutoğlu, Yalçın Akdoğan, and Efkan Ala – between July 1, 2012 and November 1, 2015. First, we show that the AKP actors persistently label the Kurdish political movement in Turkey and in Syria as a threat to the national security of Turkey, reflected in their rhetoric toward the remilitarization and resecuritization of Turkey’s Kurdish question within and across its borders. Second, we argue that the AKP used the peace process and various persuasive communicative techniques not only to consolidate Kurdish electoral support, but also to reach its aim to remove the Kemalist military–bureaucratic tutelage in Turkey that was replaced with hyper-presidentialism under the strong personality cult of Erdoğan. Third, we argue that Erdoğan’s increased one-man power has been reflected in the AKP’s branding itself as the only viable choice for the Kurdish region’s stability, which has blocked more constructive dialogue toward a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish question.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för Mellanösternstudier (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World

Publiceringsår

2023-05-16

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

71-94

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

New Perspectives on Turkey

Volym

68

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Cambridge University Press

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • populist online communication
  • right-wing populism
  • Kurdish question in Turkey
  • peace process
  • resecuritization
  • Rojava

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0896-6346