Examining Complex Intergroup Relations Through the Lens of Turkey

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Preface – Editor’s Introduction

Part I: Intergroup Relations: The Traditional Minorities

1 Fathoming Forgiveness: Armenians and Turks in Turkey

Demet İslambay Yapalı, Banu Cingöz-Ulu

2 Perceptions of Discrimination and Social Contact among Alevis and Sunnis in Turkey: Findings from Two Field Studies

Gülçin Akbaş, Elçin Ray-Yol, & Nebi Sümer

3 Disability and Discrimination: Disability Microaggressions in Turkey

Deniz Canel Çınarbaş, Deniz Albayrak Kaymak, & Hande Sart

4 How Does Culture Relate to Benevolent and Hostile Sexism? Fatih Özdemir & Nuray Sakallı

5 Young People’s Attitudes toward Old People: Prejudices, Stereotypes, Inter-group Evaluations, and Frequency of Contact

Nagihan Taşdemir

6 Missing the good old days or connecting to the globe: Investigating outgroup attitudes through collective nostalgia and global identification

Yasin Koc, Bengisu Akkurt, Ayca Aksu, Zeynep Dogan, Denizhan Sengul, Joel Anderson

Part II: Intergroup Relations: The New Minorities

7 Acculturation and Adaptation of Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The role of (dis)concordance of acculturation orientations and identity threat

İmge Terzi, Rita Guerra, Kinga Bierwiaczonek

8 Acceptance of Syrian refugees in Turkey: The roles of perceived threat, intergroup contact, perceived similarity, and temporary settlement

Şenay Yitmen, Maykel Verkuyten, Borja Martinovic, Murat Erdoğan

9 Identities and Attitudes Toward Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Meltem Güler, Halime Ünver, Hüseyin Çakal

10 "Syrian" refuge at the gaze of Kurds and Arabs in Mardin: Understanding social representations and acculturation expectations from a decolonial approach

Meral Gezici Yalçın, Canan Coşkan, Mine Batu, Ömer Kan, Nihan Yılmaz

11 Extended Contact with Turks and Syrian Refugees’ Intention to Migrate: The Mediating Roles of Ingroup and Outgroup Identification by Zafer Özkan and Naif Ergün

12 Intergroup contact among majority and minority status groups in Turkey: Extending theory and practice

Sabahat Cigdem Bagci, Sofia Stathi, Berfin Acar

Part III: Intergroup Relations and Political Culture

13 The Social Representations of Peace and The Attitudes towards Human Rights in Turkey

Pelin Karakuş-Akalın & Melek Göregenli

14 Military coups in Turkey and their effects on political culture and national identity in Turkey

Yasemin Gülsüm Acar & Elif Sandal Önal

15 Routes to collective action among opposition voters: Testing efficacy, anger, and injustice in Turkey’s repeated elections

Canan Coşkan, Gülseli Baysu & Yasin Koc

16 Collective action and in Turkey: What do we know and where do we go next?

Özden Melis Uluğ, Nevin Solak, & Yasemin Gülsüm Acar

17 Conclusion

Shenel Husnu & Hüseyin Çakal

Biography

Dr Hüseyin Çakal is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Psychology at Keele University in the United Kingdom. His work has covered the dynamics of collective action and prejudice reduction strategies, effects of social identity and intergroup contact on health and intergroup emotions among advantaged and disadvantaged groups. He has a passion for policy-oriented research on extremely disadvantaged communities in the least accessed regions, for example, South East Asia, Latin America and in the Middle East.

Dr Shenel Husnu is a Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus. She is a trainer of peace education for Turkish and Greek school children which promotes contact and cooperation between both communities. Shenel’s research interests include intergroup relations, gender and LGBTI+ issues. She has a number of publications in prejudice reduction techniques and their application to the Cyprus conflict.