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Professor İnsel: Social Engineering does not Work	"This Conduct Was a Crime Against Humanity": An Evaluation of the Initiative to Apologize to the Armenians As of January 21, 2009, 28,000 citizens of the Republic of Turkey had signed this statement. Joining in this entirely personal undertaking, listening to the voice of their own consciences, assessing the situation for themselves, persons have signed and continue to sign this “apology” text.
Ahmet İnsel - Le nationalisme des "Turcs Blancs" Plus qu’une position idéologique parmi d’autres, le nationalisme est la matrice de toute la pensée politique turque contemporaine. La gauche comme la droite, les Turcs comme les Kurdes, les laïcistes comme les islamistes revendiquent haut et fort leur adhésion aux principes nationalistes. Et cela n’a rien de surprenant tant l’idéologie officielle de l’Etat –le nationalisme d’Atatürk- s’impose à tous les acteurs politiques et pétrit, depuis des décennies, l’imaginaire social et politique du pays.	The Praetorian State and Its Owners The concept that best describes the regime in Turkey is praetorian republic. In a praetorian republic, the state may be a disorderly, anarchic power tool of a less than professional army marching behind adventurous chiefs as seen in Latin America in the past. The most significant example to these kinds of praetorian states is the last period of the Roman Empire.
Ahmet İnsel - Local Nazis' In recent Turkish history, there is a significant difference when the 6-7 September events are compared to other similar ones. These events form another link in the chain of operations such as the Armenian deportation, the scaring off of other minorities, the population exchange with Greece, the scaring off campaign against the Jews in Thrace in 1934, and the wealth tax [raised especially from minorities] all of which were undertaken to Turkify Turkey.	"Women's Revolution" in Turkey A series of demonstrations shook Turkey with an unprecedented force, resulting in early elections scheduled to take place in July 22nd, 2007. These were the largest demonstrations of the country’s modern history. Furthermore, they were organized by women, presented by women, and mostly attended by women. Not many women in the world could gather such a political power, even triggering a process that brings a government down.
"Sie lassen uns nicht in die EU" Die Türkei und Europa im Widerspruch ihrer "nationalen Werte" Spricht man über türkische Mitgliedschaft in der Europäischen Union, dann im Schatten eines Ungeheuers „fanatischer Islam“. Reduziert man dagegen die türkische Identität und ihre „Mission“ auf den gänzlich „anderen“ Islam, sprich: den säkularisierten, „moderaten“ und „toleranten“ Islam, so reproduziert man nichts anderes als das selbe Klischee – nur von der anderen Seite betrachtet.	Tanıl Bora - Der "Nationale Reflex": Die fundamentalistische Disposition des Nationalen in der Türkei und der proto-faschistische Nationalismus der MHP Der türkische Fundamentalismus (1) ist eigentlich ein auf ständiger Existenzangst und empfundener Bedrohung basierender Nationalismus; wobei der Autoritarismus, symbolisiert durch das 1982 grundgesetzlich verankerte Prinzip des „heiligen türkischen Staates“, eine demokratische Souveränität im Sinne einer staatsbürgerlich bestimmten Besetzung des Nationalen ausschließt.
Ahmet İnsel - Sortir Silencieusement d'un autoritarisme seculier: la perspective europenne de la turquie Le 3 octobre 2005, l’Union Européenne a décidé d’ouvrir les négociations en vue de l’adhésion avec la Turquie. En réalité la décision était déjà prise quelques mois auparavant, le 17 décembre 2004, durant le sommet européen. Les chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement de l’UE demandaient à la Turquie la réalisation de quelques réformes supplémentaires jusqu’au 3 octobre et la signature du protocole annexe de l’Union douanière avec les nouveaux pays membres dont la République de Chypre. Le 3 octobre aurait dû être une date cérémoniale.	The AKP and Normalizing Democracy in Turkey I he parliament that emerged from the gen¬eral elections on November 3, 2002, in Turkey has created an unexpected possibility of exit from the authoritarian regime established after the military coup of September 12, 1980.1 The 1982 Constitution, to which I will refer as the September 12 regime, aimed to impose on the society an authoritarian and conservative statist conception of politics.
Tanıl Bora - Nationalist Discourses in Turkey October 29, 1995, Republic Day; Istanbul, the center of the celebrations and the scene for an "olympiad" of Turkish nationalism. In line with the Olympic creed, ‘‘The most important thing is not to win but to take part,’’ all existing types of nationalism were present: under the umbrella of the governorship's organization (or ‘‘impresarioship’’) and to the familiar strains of the Tenth-Year March, the nationalism of the state.