When Defense Becomes Offense: The Role of Threat Narratives in the Turkish Civil War of the 1970s
This article examines the role of threat narratives in the process of group mobilization for political violence, focusing on the Turkish civil war of the 1970s. It argues that threat narratives promote political violence by identifying a certain politically mobilized group as “the
enemy,” and they incite fear in people against this group. Threat narratives further broaden the cycle of violence by deliberately conflating and expanding the category of the enemy and leaving no space for neutrality or moderation.
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Publication date: 02 January 2014
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