Intergroup forgiveness in the context of Turkey

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İslambay, Demet

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The concept of intergroup forgiveness has recently been put forward mainly to understand emerging conflicts coming from the past and to and understand and examine the bases of reconciliation. The primary aim of this study is to examine the roots of intergroup forgiveness in Turkey. Within this context, in the present study, willingness to forgive outgroups is investigated –for Turks as ethnic majority group- and Armenians and Kurds as the minority groups. First, a series of in-depth interviews with people from the three groups mentioned above are conducted to understand the ideas of different group members in terms of forgiving the outgroups with whom they conflict. Secondly, the willingness to forgive the outgroups and their possible antecedents are examined from a quantitative approach. In this correlational study, where willingness to forgive outgroups is the outcome variable, ethnic glorification is the predictor variable, the contempt and defense of ingroup historical narratives (Firmly Entrenched Narrative ClosurE, FENCE) are mediators, and intergroup contact and the strength of ethnic identity are control variables. The proposed model is tested for Armenians and Turks, as well as Kurds and Turks.

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Forgiveness, Forgiveness Social aspects., Intergroup forgiveness, social identification, historical narratives, intergroup contact,andintergroup emotions.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/45102

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D. İslambay, “Intergroup forgiveness in the context of Turkey,” Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Graduate School of Social Sciences. Psychology, Middle East Technical University, 2019.