1st Edition

Citizenship in a Global World European Questions and Turkish Experiences

By Fuat Keyman, Ahmet Icduygu Copyright 2005
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

A keen analysis of the social, political and economic determinants of Turkish politics with an exploration of the different dimensions of the republican model of Turkish citizenship, providing the reader with a comprehensive account of Turkish modernity and democracy. At the beginning of a new millennium, Turkey finds itself at a critical juncture in its democratic evolution. This momentous... Read more

Part 1. Citizenship and Modernity: Theoretical and Historical Context  1. Citizenship After Orientalism: Ottoman Citizenship  2. Community, Citizenship and Identity in Turkey  3. The Cultural and Historical Foundation of Turkish Citizenship: Modernity as Westernization  4. European Union-Turkey Relations and the Question of Citizenship  Part 2. Citizenship, State and Democracy  5. Can We Envision Turkish Citizenship as Non-Membership?  6. Legal and Constitutional Foundations of Turkish Citizenship: Changes and Continuities  Part 3. Challenges to Turkish Citizenship  7. The making of familial citizenship in Turkey  8. Entrepreneurs, citizenship and the European Union: The changing nature of state-business relation in Turkey  9. International Migration and Citizenship Debate in Turkey: Individual-level of Analysis  Part 3. Identity Claims and Politics of Recognition  10. Citizenship and the Hyphenated Germans: German-Turks  11. Citizenship Between Secularism and Islamism in Turkey  12 Articulating citizenship and identity: 'Kurdish Question' in Turkey  13. Citizenship and the Minority Question in Turkey

Biography

E.Fuat Keyman is professor of International Relations at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey and Ahmet Içduygu is associate professor of International relations at Koç University, Istanbul.