Turning “Culture Wars” into Public Policy in Erdoğan’s Turkey
Drawing on three sources (academic interventions, prosopopoeial data and presidential speeches), this article examines the emergence and institutionalization of the so-called “culture wars” in Turkey during the 2010s. What has been framed as a cultural conflict between secular and conservative fo...
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2026
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | Drawing on three sources (academic interventions, prosopopoeial data and presidential speeches), this article examines the emergence and institutionalization of the so-called “culture wars” in Turkey during the 2010s. What has been framed as a cultural conflict between secular and conservative forces can be better understood as the state-driven construction of a wedge issue. Conservative intellectuals evoked cultural issues as evidence of a structural imbalance in the field of culture and then called for a mobilization of state resources to enshrine “cultural power”. After 2013, a younger generation of academics, largely connected to the pro-government think tank, SETA, reinterpreted the debate by invoking Gramscian concepts related to cultural hegemony. The AKP government adopted this discourse and translated it into public policy through official speeches and a targeted allocation of resources while also pushing independent producers of culture onto the sidelines. The rhetoric about “culture wars” has served to legitimate and enable political interventions in the fields of cultural and ideological production, while offering opportunities for upward mobility to affiliated intellectuals.
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