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      Constructing Turkish “exceptionalism”: Discourses of liminality and hybridity in post-Cold War Turkish foreign policy

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      Yanık, L. K.
      Date
      2011-02
      Source Title
      Political Geography
      Print ISSN
      0962-6298
      Publisher
      Elsevier
      Volume
      30
      Issue
      2
      Pages
      80 - 89
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This article examines the discursive practices that enable the construction of Turkish “exceptionalism.” It argues that in an attempt to play the mediator/peacemaker role as an emerging power, the Turkish elite construct an “exceptionalist” identity that portrays Turkey in a liminal state. This liminality and thus the “exceptionalist” identity it creates, is rooted in the hybridization of Turkey’s geographical and historical characteristics. The Turkish foreign policy elite make every effort to underscore Turkey’s geography as a meeting place of different continents. Historically, there has also been an ongoing campaign to depict Turkey’s past as “multicultural” and multi-civilizational. These constructions of identity however, run counter to the Kemalist nation-building project, which is based on “purity” in contrast to “hybridity” both in terms of historiography and practice.
      Keywords
      Turkey
      Exceptionalism
      Liminality
      Hybridization
      Foreign Policy
      Discourse
      Metaphors
      Eurasia
      Neo-ottomanism
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/11998
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.01.003
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