Fearing the immigrant vote? : AKP’s political echo sparks controversy in Germany
Poeschel, Friedrich and Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü LU
(2024)
- Abstract
- New political parties are founded all the time. Most of them never reach a significant share of the vote and eventually give up. So why did the newly founded ‘Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening’ (Demokratische Allianz für Vielfalt und Aufbruch, DAVA) provoke a backlash in Germany? Various government heavyweights as well as opposition politicians reacted with disapproving statements – when normally the most effective way to keep a new party down is to ignore it. In short, we saw this uproar because the new party has ties to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan, stands to benefit from a citizenship reform that was passed only some days earlier, and appears at a time of rising polarisation within society over Gaza.
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- author
- Poeschel, Friedrich
and Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü
LU
- publishing date
- 2024-03-16
- type
- Other contribution
- publication status
- published
- publisher
- Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- 6692d3e7-a80d-4188-b23d-704d6702fe84
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- https://globalcit.eu/fearing-the-immigrant-vote-akps-political-echo-sparks-controversy-in-germany/
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abstract = {{New political parties are founded all the time. Most of them never reach a significant share of the vote and eventually give up. So why did the newly founded ‘Democratic Alliance for Diversity and Awakening’ (Demokratische Allianz für Vielfalt und Aufbruch, DAVA) provoke a backlash in Germany? Various government heavyweights as well as opposition politicians reacted with disapproving statements – when normally the most effective way to keep a new party down is to ignore it. In short, we saw this uproar because the new party has ties to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan, stands to benefit from a citizenship reform that was passed only some days earlier, and appears at a time of rising polarisation within society over Gaza.}},
author = {{Poeschel, Friedrich and Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{03}},
publisher = {{Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI}},
title = {{Fearing the immigrant vote? : AKP’s political echo sparks controversy in Germany}},
url = {{https://globalcit.eu/fearing-the-immigrant-vote-akps-political-echo-sparks-controversy-in-germany/}},
year = {{2024}},
}