CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Cetinkaya, Ceren |
|---|---|
| Title | Rising Neo-Ottomanism in Turkey: To be or not to be European; That is the Question |
| Summary | This thesis argues that the current tension between the EU and Turkey can be understood not only by looking at foreign policy choices of the actors but also by analyzing the domestic dynamics and collective identities, because these two dimensions keep influencing each other and drive Turkey’s position away from the EU in the international area. Therefore, this research focuses on two dimensions; international and domestic, in the relations between the EU and Turkey to understand better the contemporary distance between them. While the former focuses on Turkey’s everlasting membership process with an emphasis on the cultural differences in the discourses of both sides, utilizing the insights of critical constructivism, the latter focuses on how these discourses affected Turkey’s national identity reconstruction. The reconstruction process from a European to a neo-Ottoman identity is analyzed via Gramsci’s cultural hegemony concept to analyze the changes in the discourses, education, and popular culture more efficiently. Discourse analysis is used to show the representations of Turkish and European identities in the discourses of policy makers from both sides. In addition to this, critical visual analysis is used to analyze the scenes from two soap operas to show the representations of the European and Turkish identities in the popular culture. |
| Supervisor | Galai, Yoav |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/cetinkaya_ceren.pdf |
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