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    “Nomads” and “Mountaineers”: A Historical Survey of Turk/Turkmen – Kurd Interrelations
    (2020) Tetik, Mustafa Onur
    Following Turkey’s recent military operation in Syria (Operation Peace Spring), “Turks” and “Kurds” have widely been dichotomized by the Western media outlets and political circles. US President Donald Trump even claimed that “Turks” and “Kurds” have been fighting for hundreds of years, and that they are “natural enemies.” However, the complex historical relationship of “Turks” and “Kurds,” as a loosely connected social totality prior to the age of nationalism, refutes such sloppy and feeble contentions. This work presents an identity-driven historical survey of Turkish/Turkmen societies’ and polities’ interrelations with Kurdish collectivities until the emergence of modern nationhood and nationalism. In doing so, this article provides an ideational and narrational context feeding the Turkish government’s contemporary relationship with the Kurds of the Middle East. The major complication in journalistic and academic literature is rooted in the lack or omission of historical background informing current policy choices influenced by how relevant actors historically perceive each other. Today’s incidents and facts such as the “solution process,” “village guard system” or different Kurdish collectivities’ positions between Iran and Turkey are sometimes akin to precedent events in history. This work aims to make a holistic contribution to fill this gap and to provide a succinct historical overview of interrelations.
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    The Pendulum of Majoritarianism: Turkey's Governmental Self-Identity and Turkish-Egyptian Relations
    (Sage Publications Inc, 2021) Tetik, Mustafa Onur
    Turkey's relations with Egypt abruptly hit rock bottom following the Egyptian army's ousting of Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. Despite significant political fluctuations between the two countries, there is a gap in academic literature about addressing alterations in Turkish-Egyptian relations holistically. To this end, this article proposes that Turkey's volatile relationship with the Egyptian governments since the so-called Arab Spring is partially a reflection of broader institutional changes in Turkey's domestic settings. One of these salient changes is the discursive transformation of Turkish national self-perception. This article shows how Turkey's new governmental self-understanding of majoritarianism manifests in its relations with Egypt. It asserts that this transformation in the governmental perception of the national-self made Turkey's policies on Egypt, which oscillate between one extreme to another, conceivable/thinkable via the medium of national identity discourses. It shows the interplay between the governmental identity discourses of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) elites and Turkey's policies on Egypt in the institutional/non-discursive foreign policy field.