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      Constructing morality for Turkey : the moral campaign of the 1980s as a novel technique of governing

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      Keçeli, Öncü
      Advisor
      Cindoğlu, Dilek
      Date
      2010
      Publisher
      Bilkent University
      Language
      English
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      Thesis
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      Political history of Turkey of the 1980s usually narrates the institutional reorganization of state structure and legislative changes introduced by the military regime established after the September 12, 1980 coup d’état and demilitarization efforts of the following civilian governments. However, the military regime did not simply apply institutional changes; one of its aims was to infiltrate society at every level, through “conduct of conduct.” Everyday life was targeted and governed by both the military regime, following civilian governments and non-state actors in the 1980s in order to restructure socio-political space and establish hegemony of a life style by setting new standards of normalcy. Morality, as a constitutive element of everyday life, had a peculiar place in efforts to reconstruct the distinction between the normal and the abnormal, since it was believed that decay of moral values was among the primary reasons of social collapse in the pre-coup period. This study, hence, analyzes the moral campaign of the 1980s, as a hegemonic project which problematized the conduct and values of others and attempted to dominate everyday practices. The dissertation studies the Intellectuals’ Hearth and a peculiar reading of history and society, the Turkish Islamic Synthesis, as the intellectual background of the moral campaign and as an exemplary discourse of moralist thinking. It later focuses on three of everyday domains that were targeted in the 1980s to institute the proper life style for the society and the individual: education of morality, politics of non – heterosexuality and censorship of obscenity. This study, then, rewrites the history of Turkey of the 1980s, as a story of efforts to develop new standards of moral norms in everyday life.
      Keywords
      Turkish Politics
      obscenity
      censorship
      Bülent Ersoy
      transvestites
      transsexuals
      homosexuals
      homosexuality
      heterosexuality
      Turkish education system
      Turgut Özal
      Motherland Party
      Kenan Evren
      September 12
      1980s
      Turkish Islamic Synthesis
      Intellectuals’ Hearth
      governmentality
      everyday life
      moral campaign
      morality
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