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Article
The Black Suits of Mayday: The Turkish Cypriot Opposition in a Period of Siege
Author(s)
Nikos Moudouros
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2019.01.002
Affiliation(s)
University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
ABSTRACT
The
present article analyzes the emergence of the Turkish Cypriot state of
exception in the period of intercommunal riots in Cyprus on two main levels.
The first level identifies its structures and ideological aspects. The enclaves
of the 1964-1974 period in Cyprus are treated as areas of exclusion and siege
of the Turkish Cypriots. Therefore, they are studied as spaces that produce
certain political activity against the “other” community, the Greek Cypriot
community. The creation of the enclaves resulted from the armed violence of
this decade; it was a direct response to an emergency situation which
contributed, to a certain degree, and to the territorial and political
partition of the two communities. Therefore, this article aims to describe the
aspects of the nationalist hegemony and the efforts to reproduce its power
through the activation of the threat. On a second level, the article studies
the dynamics that led to the emergence of opposition forces and which
eventually became an important aspect of the development of the Turkish Cypriot
community. On this level, the paper examines the space where the Turkish
Cypriots lived for a decade as areas where state power sovereignty, or the
dominance of the nationalist elite, met with alternative forms of existence and
with other notions of belonging that opposed the dominant ones.
KEYWORDS
Cyprus, Turkey, Turkish Cypriots, state of exception, opposition, hegemony
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