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    Alevis in Turkey
    (Taylor and Francis, 2018) Department of International Relations; N/A; Department of International Relations; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Elçi, Ezgi; Faculty Member; Researcher; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A; 125588; N/A
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    The rise of populism in Turkey: a content analysis
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) N/A; Elçi, Ezgi; Researcher; Migration Research Program at Koç University MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); N/A; N/A
    The rise of populist parties around the world raises concerns about liberal democracy. Amid the discussions on democratic backsliding, this study scrutinises populism in Turkey by using quantitative content analysis. For this goal, this article uses parliamentary group speeches of political leaders between 2011 and 2019 (N = 569) as raw data. The results illustrate that Erdogan is significantly more populist than other leaders. Kilicdaroglu, on the other hand, appears as the least populist political figure. While Bahceli exploits a Manichean discourse, Peoples' Democratic Party (Halklarin Demokratik Partisi (HDP)) instrumentalises anti-elitism. The overall results indicate that Turkish politics is stuck in the spiral of populism, which damages democracy in Turkey.
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    Populism in Turkey
    (Springer, 2018) Department of International Relations; N/A; Department of International Relations; Aytaç, Selim Erdem; Elçi, Ezgi; Faculty Member; Researcher; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A; 224278; N/A
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    Partisanship, elite messages, and support for populism in power
    (Cambridge Univ Press, 2021) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; N/A; Department of International Relations; Aytaç, Selim Erdem; Çarkoğlu, Ali; Elçi, Ezgi; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Researcher; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A; 224278; 125588; N/A
    Discontent is seen as a critical driver for the appeal of populism, yet studies have typically focused on cases of populism in opposition. We argue that scholars' emphasis on populism in opposition led them to overlook the roles of elite messages and partisanship in the adoption of populist attitudes. Drawing on theories of elite-driven public opinion, we contend that populist attitudes do not need to be rooted in discontent. In cases of populism in power, those who are more satisfied politically and economically, and partisans of the ruling party should display higher levels of populist attitudes. We provide observational and experimental survey evidence in this direction from Turkey, where a populist party has long been in power. We also find that the dominant characteristic of support for populism in power is an emphasis on popular sovereignty at the expense of institutions of horizontal accountability.
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    How COVID-19 financially hit urban refugees: evidence from mixed-method research with citizens and Syrian refugees in Turkey
    (Wiley, 2021) Kirişçioğlu, Eda; Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Elçi, Ezgi; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; 238439; N/A
    Peering through a lens of disasters and inequalities, this article measures the financial impacts of Covid-19 on citizens and refugee communities in Turkey during a relatively early phase of the global pandemic. Our data comes from an online survey (N = 1749) conducted simultaneously with Turkish citizens and Syrian refugees living in Turkey, followed by in-depth online interviews with Syrian refugees. Our findings indicate that the initial Covid-19 measures had a higher financial impact on Syrians than on citizens when controlled for employment, wealth, and education, among other variables. In line with the literature, our research confirms that disasters' socio-economic effects disproportionally burden minority communities. We additionally discuss how Covid-19 measures have significantly accelerated effects on refugees compared to the local population, mainly due to the structural and policy context within which forcibly displaced Syrians have been received in Turkey.
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    Politics of nostalgia and populism: evidence from Turkey
    (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021) Elçi, Ezgi; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç)
    This article scrutinizes the relationship between collective nostalgia and populism. Different populist figures utilize nostalgia by referring to their country's 'good old' glorious days and exploiting resentment of the elites and establishment. Populists instrumentalize nostalgia in order to create their populist heartland, which is a retrospectively constructed utopia based on an abandoned but undead past. Using two original datasets from Turkey, this study first analyzes whether collective nostalgia characterizes populist attitudes of the electorate. The results illustrate that collective nostalgia has a significantly positive relationship with populist attitudes even after controlling for various independent variables, including religiosity, partisanship, satisfaction with life and Euroscepticism. Secondly, the study tests whether nostalgic messages affect populist attitudes using an online survey experiment. The results indicate that Ottoman nostalgia helps increase populist attitudes. Kemalist nostalgia, however, has a weak direct effect on populist attitudes that disappears after controlling for party preference.