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A Bridge with Multiple Faces: Competing Identities in Turkish Parliamentary Debates (1988-2016)

Erdoğan Aykaç

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This article examines how Turkish parliamentarians continuously (re)shape Turkey’s identity and geopolitical role by using the metaphor of a bridge in parliamentary debates from 1988 to 2016. First, the article argues that parliamentarians use this metaphor in identity-formation processes to mediate between competing identities, thereby constituting Turkey’s liminal identity. Second, it illustrates how the bridge metaphor remained a dominant discourse even though parliamentarians constantly challenged and refilled the meaning of it. This constantly (re)shapes Turkey’s geopolitical role to function as a bridge between the West and East.

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Indo-Iranian languages and literature Literature (General) Asian. Oriental

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Erdoğan Aykaç

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Aykaç, E. (2021). A Bridge with Multiple Faces: Competing Identities in Turkish Parliamentary Debates (1988-2016). https://doi.org/10.5771/2625-9842-2021-2-279

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Lihat di Sumber doi.org/10.5771/2625-9842-2021-2-279

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Tahun Terbit: 2021
Sumber Database: DOAJ
DOI: 10.5771/2625-9842-2021-2-279
Akses: Open Access ✓