Ethnic Minorities in Israel and Turkey Inside Outsiders

Contents

List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
1.1 Ethnic boundaries and minority politics in Israel and Turkey
1.2 The ethnic boundary-making approach: A framework for analyzing majority-minority relations
1.3 Methodology
1.4 The structure of the book

2. Ethnic Boundary-Making Approach to Ethnicity and Nation-Building

2.1 The formation of minorities: Nation-building or nation-destroying?
2.2 Us and them: Ethnic boundary-making as a nationalist project
2.3 Defining national belonging: Boundary-making strategies in Israel and Turkey
2.4 The impact of contextual factors on boundary-making strategies

3. State-Minority Relations in Israel and Turkey: Historical Trajectories of Boundary-Making

3.1 Defining the boundaries of Israeli national identity: State policies toward Palestinian citizens
3.2 Defining the boundaries of Turkish national identity: State policies and the Kurdish question in Turkey

4. Challenging Ethnic Hierarchies: Palestinian and Kurdish Mobilization for Collective Rights
4.1 Palestinian political mobilization and minority demands in Israel
4.2 Kurdish political mobilization and minority demands in Turkey

5. Palestinian Citizens as a “Security Dilemma:” Israeli Political Elite’s Perspectives on Palestinian Citizens and Minority Rights

5.1 Constructing Israeliness: Elite views on national identity and the boundaries of belonging
5.2 The paradox of equality
5.3 Citizenship, security, and the politics of recognition
a) Incorporation without integration: “The more we meet, the better we are”
b) Citizenship without sovereignty: The rejection of Palestinian collective rights
c) Trans-border ethnic relations and the Palestinian minority as a “security dilemma”

6. The Kurdish Question as an “External Plot:” Turkish Political Elite’s Perspectives on Kurdish Citizens and Minority Rights

6.1 Defining the boundaries of Turkishness: Who is a Turk?
6.2 The political elite and the Kurdish question: A legacy of denial
6.3 External influence, national security, and Turkey’s Kurdish question
a) The Turkish-Kurdish coexistence narrative
b) Recognition without collective rights
c) The Kurdish question as an “external plot”
d) Transnational insecurities: What happens beyond the border does not stay beyond the border

7. Inside-Outsiders: Trans-border homeland minorities and ethnic boundaries

7.1 Israel and Turkey: Ethnic vs. Civic State?
7.2 Inconsistency between discourse and practice: Individual citizenship rights vs. collective national rights
7.3 Challenging the hierarchical ordering of ethnic categories: Palestinian and Kurdish demands for equalization
7.4 Trans-border ethnic ties as an external factor influencing boundary-making strategies in the social field

8. Conclusion

INDEX

Biography

Z. Aslı Elitsoy received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Bilkent University and holds an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Tel Aviv University. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. Her research is based on extensive fieldwork in Turkey and Israel with a focus on ethnicity, nationalism, minority politics, and migration. Her work has been published in international academic journals such as Security Dialogue, New Perspectives on Turkey, and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.