Unveiling Discrimination: Minorities in Türkiye

ReliefWeb: Updates by Country 29.04.2024 18:50 Countries: Syrian Arab Republic, Türkiye Source: Minority Rights Group Please refer to the attached file. This report, titled ‘Unveiling Discrimination: Minorities in Türkiye’ aims to portray the ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities in Türkiye by analyzing the problems and challenges they face in the country. The focus of the report is the discrimination embedded in state policies towards minorities, which has persisted over time and continues to this day, and is an obstacle to the further development of minority rights. The nationalism underpinning the relations between the state and minorities in Türkiye can be understood as the basis for this persistent discrimination. However, it should be noted that discrimination is cascaded, contextualized and intersected with various dynamics, such as religion, class and gender inequality, and that it occurs not only in the context of state-minority relations, but also in relations between dominant groups and minorities, between minorities and within minority communities. Although this report primarily provides a comprehensive analysis of state-minority relations in Türkiye by highlighting the expression of Turkish nationalism in discriminatory practices, various other dimensions of discrimination are highlighted in the context of the cases discussed. Within this framework, the report begins with a brief description of the background to discrimination in relations between the state and minorities. Against this background, the report is divided into three main sections in order to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive portrait of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities in Türkiye. The first chapter sets out the legal background of discrimination and minority rights in Türkiye to better appreciate the challenges and violations faced by minorities in the country and to provide a resource for people interested in further examination. The second chapter explores discrimination as a pervasive and fundamental problem affecting all minority communities in different spheres of social life, also taking into account the impact of the recent earthquakes. Using real-life examples of rights violations, this chapter explains the struggle of various minorities for their survival and identity, placing these violations within the legal framework described in the previous chapter. The final chapter focuses on linguistic rights, especially the right to one’s mother tongue, which is a pressing issue for many minorities in Türkiye and essential for their cultural survival. Although linguistic rights have a more solid legal basis in Türkiye compared with other minority rights, they are an arena of ongoing struggles that highlight the practical challenges arising from discrimination. The final chapter serves as a case study that illustrates the nature of discrimination against minorities in Türkiye through the lens of linguistic rights and highlights the challenges that minorities seek to overcome in the name of their cultural existence

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