Towards the Ideological Collapse of Partition (Taksim)
This chapter analyses the gradual culmination of the ideological delegitimization of the secessionist state through the impact of the economic crisis and the organization of the opposition. Special reference is made to the way Turkey has dealt with the cr
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Nikos Moudouros
State of Exception in the Mediterranean
Nikos Moudouros
State of Exception in the Mediterranean Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot Community
Nikos Moudouros Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies University of Cyprus Nicosia, Cyprus
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Preface
Asking a Turkish Cypriot friend to describe to me in as few words as possible life in the northern part of Cyprus, she replied: We live in an aquarium. And when asked why “aquarium”, her reply was equally remarkable: Because in an aquarium everything seems “orderly”, “normal” and in place, but everything is fake and artificial. What is most important though, is that “the ones inside” the aquarium, are trapped outside their natural environment. They are outcasts. What is it, therefore, that forces many Turkish Cypriots to describe their life as “trapped” and outcast? Which is the “fake and artificial” structure which attempts to impose the feeling that everything is “in order”? But furthermore, which exactly are the social dynamics that help realize the “fake and artificial”? All these questions have also been a form of motive to study the evolution of the Turkish Cypriot community in a “close space”, as the northern areas of Cyprus have been for decades. This research constitutes the most basic part of an effort to understand the relations of a small community of people with a more powerful state. But above all, it is the result of a quest for answers
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