Populism, authoritarianism and necropolitics : instrumentalization of martyrdom narratives in AKP's Turkey / Ihsan Yilmaz, Omer Erturk.
Yilmaz, Ihsan, 1971- author.; Erturk, Omer, author.
2023
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Title Populism, authoritarianism and necropolitics : instrumentalization of martyrdom narratives in AKP's Turkey / Ihsan Yilmaz, Omer Erturk.
Author Yilmaz, Ihsan, 1971- author.
ISBN 9789811982927 (electronic bk.)
9811982929 (electronic bk.)
9811982910
9789811982910
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8292-7
Imprint Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-19-8292-7 doi
Call Number DR605.E73
Dewey Decimal Classification 324.256104
Summary This book examines how Turkeys ruling party, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdogan produces and employs necropolitical narratives in order to perpetuate its authoritarian rule. In doing so, the book argues that as the party transitioned from socially conservative Muslim democratic values to authoritarian Islamism, it embraced a necropolitical narrative based on the promotion of martyrdom, and of killing and dying for the Turkish nation and Islam, as part of their authoritarian legitimation. This narrative, the book shows, is used by the party to legitimise its actions and deflect its failures through the framing of the deaths of Turkish soldiers and civilians, which have occurred due to the AKPs political errors, as martyrdom events in which loyal servants of the Turkish Republic and God gave their lives in order to protect the nation in a time of great crisis. This book also describes how, throughout its second decade in power, the AKP has used Turkeys education system, its Directorate of Religious Affairs, and television programs in order to propagate its necropolitical martyrdom narrative. Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Omer Erturk is an Independent Researcher in Berlin, Germany, with an interest area focused on Turkish politics, Islamist movements in Turkey, relations between politics and religion, radicalism and autocracy.
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Intro
Contents
1 The AKP's Civilizational Populist Authoritarianism and Necropolitics
Introduction
Three Pillars of Authoritarian Stability
Civilizational Populism
Necropolitics
The Civilizational Populist Necropolitics in the AKP Authoritarianism
Structure of the Book
References
Part I Civilizational Populist Necropolitical Propaganda
2 Martyrdom and Martyr-Icons in Turkish Politics
Introduction
Kemalism and Martyrs
Kemalists' Martyr Hero Icon Kubilay
Conclusion
References
3 Martyrdom in the Erdoganist AKP's Politics
Introduction

Erdonism and Martyrs
Erdonists' Martyr-Icons
Conclusion
References
4 Necropolitical Sermons
Introduction
Militarism in the Friday Sermons from Kemalist to Erdonist Times
Jihadism in Friday Sermons
Martyrdom in Friday Sermons
Conclusion
References
5 The Use of TV Series for Civilizational Populist Necropolitical Propaganda
Introduction
The State's Use of TV Series from Kemalist to Erdonist Times
The TV Series as a Means of Necropolitical Re-Production
Glorifying Death, Beheading, Martyrdom, and Graves in a Jihadist Context
Conclusion

Impose Restrictions on Access to Opposing Voices and Media
Turn Blame into Credit
Bargaining via Rewards
Conclusion
References
8 Necropolitics and Martyrdom in AKP's Authoritarian Stability
Introduction
Necropolitics and Repression
Necropolitics and Legitimation for Authoritarianism
Necropolitics and Co-optation
Conclusion
References
Part III Necropolitics and Turkish Society
9 Necropolitics and Turkish Society
Introduction
'Tell Us to Kill, We Will Kill
Tell Us to Die, We Will Die'
Sacrificing Life for Erdon and His Religious Cause (da'wa)

Conclusion
References
10 The Authoritarian Role of Necropolitics and Martyrdom in Turkey Under AKP Rule
References
Index
4 Necropolitical Sermons
Introduction
Militarism in the Friday Sermons from Kemalist to Erdonist Times
Jihadism in Friday Sermons
Martyrdom in Friday Sermons
Conclusion
References

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