Filiz Tutku Aydin

Social Sciences University of Ankara · Department of Political Science

Sovyetler Birliği’nin dağılmasından sonra eski Sovyet devletleri üzerindeki hegemonyasını sürdürme siyaseti güden Rusya Şubat 2022’ye gelindiğinde *kardeş ülke* olarak adlandırdığı Ukrayna’ya yönelik işgal girişiminde bulunmuştur. Rusya’nın kısa sürede Ukrayna yönetimini devirerek kendine bağlı bir hükümeti göreve taşıma hedefiyle kalkıştığı bu har...

In this final chapter, the Crimean Tatar cases are classified into émigré, exile, diaspora, and transnational nationalism as a way of explaining the variation in mobilization and consequences of these identity movements. Generalizations about the emergence and development of the extra-territorial communities are drawn. Instead of studying each comm...

This chapter will examine the long-distance nationalism that emerged among the Crimean Tatar diaspora in Turkey at the beginning of the twentieth century. Even the declaration of the first Crimean Tatar Republic was largely prepared in Turkey, utilizing resources of the host land. The first mini-case corresponds to the émigré movement organized in...

This chapter examines the movements of Crimean Tatar refugees of the Second World War, who settled in the United States, usually after a short stay in Turkey. The first mini-case features the period between 1960 and 1990, in which the refugee movement was divided into political and apolitical branches. A small number engaged in émigré nationalism,...

The Crimean Tatars initiated a collective return movement shortly after their exile in Central Asia because of their return-oriented movement frames. Their struggle for return went through mainly three phases as a response to changes in the political and discursive opportunities in the regime and international arena: alignment with the communist ma...

In this chapter, the nationalist movements among the Crimean Tatars, who have immigrated Ottoman Dobruca region throughout the nineteenth century, will be examined. The long-distance nationalism in Dobruca between 1900 and 1945 forms the first mini-case. The emergence of nationalism is prompted by intelligentsia’s re-interpretation of pan-Turkist i...

This chapter offers a theoretical framework that allows for a systematic comparison of identity movements of extra-territorial communities across time. Regarding diaspora as an ethnonational phenomenon as opposed to transcendence of ethnicity and nation, the social movement theory is brought into explain the dynamics of diaspora mobilization. The f...

‘In 2014, Crimea was catapulted into the worldwide media following its forcible annexation by Russia. The Crimean Tatars, who were deported en masse in 1944 and who managed to return home in the 1990s, were threatened once again with deportation. Filiz Tutku Aydin’s book tells the remarkable story of how in the course of the twentieth century the C...

The Crimean Tatar diaspora has supported Ukrainian sovereignty since 1991 and contributed to conflict resolution among Crimean Tatars and Ukraine and homeland Crimean Tatars ‘ well-being. They also advocated for the Turkish strategic alliance with Ukraine due to their traumatic historical experiences with Russia. In this article, we investigate the...

Crimean Tatar Diaspora and Migration

http://kirimtatardiaspora.blogspot.com/2008/06/krm-tatar-g-hikayeleri-patme-fatma-atl.html

Throughout history, the Crimean Tatars have challenged Russian aggression by utilizing two main strategies: engaging and confronting. Since its annexation of Crimea in March 2014, Russia has left no room for engagement and has demanded the complete submission of the Crimean Tatar population. This article argues that the Crimean Tatars should not yi...

Чорноморська політикаТуреччини: Балансування чи «Російська рулетка»

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This paper examines the process of how Crimean Tatars strived to attain group-differentiated rights since they have returned to their homeland in the early 1990s. Whereas the politics of minority rights were viewed through security lens in earlier literature, we emphasize the significance of cultural constructs in influencing the minority policies,...