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      Politics of remembering the enemy: prisoner narratives of the 1980 military coup

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      Author(s)
      Şensönmez, Gökhan
      Date
      2022-05-08
      Source Title
      Turkish Studies
      Electronic ISSN
      1743-9663
      Publisher
      Routledge
      Volume
      24
      Issue
      1
      Pages
      126 - 149
      Language
      English
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      Article
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      Abstract
      This article examines 64 autobiographical narratives written by erstwhile political prisoners who were forced to cohabitate with their adversaries in post-1980 coup military prisons of Turkey in the mixing-for-peace (karıştır-barıştır) program. Tracing these narratives published between 1988 and 2019, it argues that there are three recurrent versions of remembering the enemy: ‘the unjust’ is utilized in the identity reformulation of right-wing Ülkücü militants whereas ‘the miserable fascist’ reaffirmed the leftists’ superior self-image vis-à-vis the right-wingers. While these two are predominantly entrenched in far-right and far-left memory camps, remembering the enemy as ‘the fellow victim’ provides a case of multidirectional memory as it was expressed by both left-wing and right-wing political figures to narrativize their break from radicalism and to whitewash their responsibility in the past violence. This tripartite division in remembering the enemy suggests the addition of a radical/centrist axis to the conventional left/right axis for a more comprehensive understanding of post-coup memory in Turkey.
      Keywords
      Incarceration
      Prisoners’ narrative
      Multidirectional memory
      1980 coup in Turkey
      Mixing-for-peace
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/111723
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2022.2073225
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