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The Establishment of Israel Recognition of a New State in the Middle East and Its Repercussions on the Turkish Public (1936 – 1956)
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2016) Valansi, Karel Franco; Bıçakçı, Ahmet Salih
The nationalist outlook of the Turkish state since the beginning of the Republican era targeted uniform identity formation. While it did not recognize the existence of ethnic identities as long as they were Muslim non-Muslims were challenging this ideal. During this social engineering the religious minorities and the state had very turbulent relations. The Jews were presented as model citizens to other religious minorities. However they were not accepted as equal citizens and the mistrust the state had for them resulted in many discriminative legislations. Following the Second World War a new state was established in the Middle East. During the Cold War the Soviet threat led Turkey to recognize the State of israel established as a Jewish state. The main reasoning of Turkey in recognizing israel was to strengthen its position in the Western camp. Following its creation a surprisingly high number of Turkish Jews immigrated to this new country. This research is an attempt to investigate the first three decades of the Republic for its public including the religious minorities of Turkey with a special focus on the Jewish community as it is one of the major links between Turkey and israel. The research analyzes the Turkish public reaction to the establishment and recognition of the State of israel by Turkey and tries the shed light on the reason of this mass immigration which is the second biggest immigration out of Turkey after the labor immigration to Europe starting from the 1960s. This research used Bakhtin’s Dialogical Narrative Analysis (DNA) to illustrate the different perspectives and to analyze the developments in an objective and impartial way. it aims to show the reflections of the Turkish public by their experience and their narrative.