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Ethnicity, social tensions and production of space in forced migration neighbourhoods of Mersin: comparing the case of the Demirtaş neighbourhood with newly established ones

Ethnicity, social tensions and production of space in forced migration neighbourhoods of Mersin:... Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 13, Number 4, December 2011 Ethnicity, social tensions and production of space in forced migration neighbourhoods of Mersin: comparing the case of the Demirtas ¸ neighbourhood with newly established ones ALI EKBER DOGAN and BEDIZ YILMAZ Introduction There is a widespread perception that forced migration had significant political reflections on the city of Mersin and that this city became the western city of Turkey in which the Kurdish movement was the most visible and decisive during the second half of the 1990s. This perception leads to the fact that Mersin is one of the first metropolises in the western part of the country that immediately comes to mind when one speaks of forced migration of Kurds and the spaces that are most influenced by the ‘Kurdish issue’. It should be noted en passant that the victory of HADEP (pro-Kurdish party at the time, People’s Democracy Party) in the 1999 local elections in obtaining the municipality of the central Akdeniz District has served as an important indicator for the state and the nationalist milieus. From that period on, the situation of Mersin began to be presented as a sign of a ‘threat’ http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Taylor & Francis

Ethnicity, social tensions and production of space in forced migration neighbourhoods of Mersin: comparing the case of the Demirtaş neighbourhood with newly established ones

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Ethnicity, social tensions and production of space in forced migration neighbourhoods of Mersin: comparing the case of the Demirtaş neighbourhood with newly established ones

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Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 13, Number 4, December 2011 Ethnicity, social tensions and production of space in forced migration neighbourhoods of Mersin: comparing the case of the Demirtas ¸ neighbourhood with newly established ones ALI EKBER DOGAN and BEDIZ YILMAZ Introduction There is a widespread perception that forced migration had significant political reflections on the city of Mersin and that this city became the western city of Turkey in which...
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Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Volume 13, Number 4, December 2011 Ethnicity, social tensions and production of space in forced migration neighbourhoods of Mersin: comparing the case of the Demirtas ¸ neighbourhood with newly established ones ALI EKBER DOGAN and BEDIZ YILMAZ Introduction There is a widespread perception that forced migration had significant political reflections on the city of Mersin and that this city became the western city of Turkey in which the Kurdish movement was the most visible and decisive during the second half of the 1990s. This perception leads to the fact that Mersin is one of the first metropolises in the western part of the country that immediately comes to mind when one speaks of forced migration of Kurds and the spaces that are most influenced by the ‘Kurdish issue’. It should be noted en passant that the victory of HADEP (pro-Kurdish party at the time, People’s Democracy Party) in the 1999 local elections in obtaining the municipality of the central Akdeniz District has served as an important indicator for the state and the nationalist milieus. From that period on, the situation of Mersin began to be presented as a sign of a ‘threat’

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