Selling Citizenship in Turkey: Political Parties, Pragmatism, and Polarization

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13537113.2025.2526265" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13537113.2025.2526265</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2025.2526265" target="_blank" >10.1080/13537113.2025.2526265</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Selling Citizenship in Turkey: Political Parties, Pragmatism, and Polarization

Original language description

Turkey’s 2016 Citizenship by Investment Programme has sparked significant debates on citizenship. This study examines how five major Turkish political parties conceptualize citizenship through their positions on this practice. It argues that parties’ conceptions of citizenship shape their political behavior, a dynamic often underexplored in existing scholarship. While opposition parties’ perspectives inform their resistance to citizenship-by-investment policies, ruling parties adopt pragmatic, policy-oriented approaches that occasionally diverge from their stated ideological principles. Empirically, the study elucidates the complexities of citizenship by situating the practice of citizenship-by-investment within the context of Turkish politics. Conceptually, it enriches the literature by analyzing political polarization in Turkey through the lens of citizenship, an approach less commonly pursued compared to frameworks of authoritarianism or Islamization. Employing a case study methodology and critical discourse analysis with an inductive coding approach, the article identifies which citizenship conceptions align with parties’ stances on citizenship-by-investment, drawing on party documents, parliamentary records, and media reports from 2016 to 2025.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

ISSN

1353-7113

e-ISSN

1557-2986

Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

577-604

UT code for WoS article

001527070800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105015875892