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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
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Decolonial Entangled Ethnographic Research: Transformative Collaborations With the UK Alevi Community Over the Last 15 Years

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
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Islam hétérodoxe et christianisme en Grèce

Cahiers Balkaniques, 2017
In South-Eastern Europe, Alevism and Bektashism constitute two tightly connected religious movements whose roots go down to the Ottoman history of this area.
Isabelle Dépret
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Kentsel Dönüşüm Süreçlerinin İzmir’deki Cemevleri Üzerine Olası Etkileri

Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi
This study focuses on possible impacts of urban renewal processes on Cemevies in case of İzmir metropolitan area by focusing on construction stories of cemevies. It claims neoliberal urbanism complicates the production of Cemevi and draws attention to
Gülcan Kaygusuz, İrfan Kaygalak
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The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship: An Ontological Inquiry of State‐Citizen Relations in Türkiye

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Alevilik Felsefî Bir Din Midir? (Alevî-Bektaşî Kardeşlerimize Bir Nidâ!)

Dini Araştırmalar, 2015
In this article entitled "Is Alevism a philosophical religion?" has been given place to be exhibited inconsistencies and criticisms of efforts to base on first age materialism Alevism of Ismail Özmen and Esat Korkmaz. On the one hand, moreover, the ideas
Süleyman Hayri Bolay
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Répression et changement des formes de militantisme : carrières de remobilisation à gauche après 1980 en Turquie

European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2013
This article addresses the consequences of repression on activism. In order to do so, it analyses a type of ‘post-repression’ militant career: former leftist activists having become Alevist leaders in post-1980 Turkey.
Élise Massicard
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