Nationalist bias in Turkish official discourse on hate speech: a Rawlsian criticism

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2019-01-01

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Deveci, Cem

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This article analyzes the approach in Turkey on hate speech by evaluating legal regulations, decisions and public responses. We argue that the Turkish case cultivates neither a lenient, nor a restrictive response to hate speech, because a strong nationalist bias seems to be at work in interpreting, penalizing or allowing hate speech. The peculiarity of the Turkish case stems from a prejudice that hate speech might be conducted only against the nation, unity of the state, or the principles of regime, rather than against vulnerable groups or identities. By focusing on the Hrant Dink case among others we try to demonstrate the most striking example of this prejudice.

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Turkish politics, Hrant Dink, Minorities, Political justice, Freedom of speech; , Nationalism, Hate speech

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32922

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TURKISH STUDIES

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https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2018.1479961

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Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Article

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C. Deveci, “Nationalist bias in Turkish official discourse on hate speech: a Rawlsian criticism,” TURKISH STUDIES, pp. 26–48, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/32922.