September Events as a Sample of Collective Evil-Responsibility
13th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA 2017), Athens, Yunanistan, 29 Ağustos - 01 Eylül 2017, ss.953-954, (Özet Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
- Basıldığı Şehir: Athens
- Basıldığı Ülke: Yunanistan
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.953-954
- Yozgat Bozok Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Anatolian has had distinctive characteristics as a rich geography which embodies many different cultures for years. But, it was just three decades after the proclamation of the republic when this cultural diversity started to be destroyed and Turkish-Sunni domination became clear. As a result of the minority policies of the government, minorities begun to thinkthat the government treated them like a “step-child” and Cyprus issue, which gradually became violent in this period, affected the attitudes of Turkish-Sunni people to minorities considerably and essentialization-categorization tendency, which was defined as a result of the power of abstraction by Zygmunt Bauman, became significant. Anti-Greek discourse which was mainly expressed by the Association of “Cyprus is Turkish” and spread because of Cyprus issue expanded to all minorities on 6th of September, 1955. Expression of this statement turned into action and violent events took place, which would be called as “September Events” later. Some of the people who had been living in the same neighbourhood with the minorities for years were directly involved in these events and while some of them led the mad crowd to the houses and workplaces owned by minorities, some people were just spectators. Although there have been many claims and theories about the events and these events haven’t been completely clarified yet, there were two truths about the events: September Events took place as a collective evil action and responsibility belonged to a collective group rather than a couple of people or a small group. This study aims to analyze the September Events in terms of collective evil-responsibility using “The Question of German Guilt” by Karl Jaspers.