Assessing Transnational Renegotiation in the Post-1974 Turkish Cypriot Community: 'Cyprus Donkeys', 'Black Beards' and the 'EU Carrot'
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This article discusses the construction and re-negotiation of identity within the Turkish
Cypriot community. This process is analysed in the context of its transnational position
between Greek Cypriots and Turkey, as well as the Diaspora, the immigrants and the
European Union. Further, it describes how competing conceptions of national and regional
identity—located between Turkish nationalism and expressions of Cypriotism—developed
among Turkish Cypriots after 1974. Addressing issues such as the debate on European
identity within the community, identity formation in the Turkish Cypriot diaspora and the
controversial issue of immigration to northern Cyprus, it argues that despite their strong
transnational orientation, Cypriotist identity discourses also reveal a significant exclusionary
potential.
Cypriot community. This process is analysed in the context of its transnational position
between Greek Cypriots and Turkey, as well as the Diaspora, the immigrants and the
European Union. Further, it describes how competing conceptions of national and regional
identity—located between Turkish nationalism and expressions of Cypriotism—developed
among Turkish Cypriots after 1974. Addressing issues such as the debate on European
identity within the community, identity formation in the Turkish Cypriot diaspora and the
controversial issue of immigration to northern Cyprus, it argues that despite their strong
transnational orientation, Cypriotist identity discourses also reveal a significant exclusionary
potential.
Date of Publication
2006
Publication Type
Article
Language(s)
en
Series
Southeast European and Black Sea studies
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
ISSN
1468-3857
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restricted