Societal Peace and Ideal Citizenship for Turkey

This book aims to understand the ways and means for ensuring societal peace by evaluating problems about citizenship in the Turkish regime. It also offers the ideal citizenship regime for Turkey in relation to various issues, such as the environment, gender, youth, and poverty.

Globalisation and neo-liberalism have been impacting the nation-state and leading the full citizenship concept into crisis, not only in Turkey but also in the world. While one reason for this crisis is the decline of the welfare state, another reason stems from the fluidity of borders that distorts the classical patterns of the nation-state such as meta-identity. The existing Turkish citizenship inherited a strong state idea with passive citizenship tradition from the Ottoman Empire. However, this understanding is no longer sustainable for Turkish society. The definition of citizenship through state-led nationalism, secularism, and a free market economy creates societal crises in politics and society. The aim of this book is to find out the answer of what should be the ideal citizenship regime for Turkey. Various scholars dealing with Turkish socio-politics analyze different aspects and problems of Turkish citizenship regime that should be tackled for finding a recipe for ideal citizenship in Turkey.

Chapter 1. Beyond State-Led Nationalism: Ideal Citizenship for Turkey
Chapter 2. Citizenship and National Identity: A Comparative Analysis
Chapter 3. Making of Modern Turkey and The Structuring of The Kurdish Identity: New Paradigms of Citizenship in The 21st Century
Chapter 4. The Alevi Identity and Civil Rights in the 20th Century
Chapter 5. Gypsies and Citizenship in Turkey
Chapter 6. Less than Citizens: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Question in Turkey
Chapter 7. Turks of African Origin and Citizenship
Chapter 8. Gender and Citizenship in Turkey at the Crossroads of The Patriarchal State, Women and Transnational Pressures
Chapter 9. European Union and Turkey: Transformation of State-Society Relationship
Chapter 10. Social Rights as Ideal Citizenship
Chapter 11. The Turkish Young People as Active Citizens: Equal Participation or Social Exclusion?
Chapter 12. Environmental Citizenship and Struggle for Nature