Non-resident Citizen Voting and Transnational Mobilisation of Political Parties : The Case of Turkey
Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü LU
(2024)
p.241-255
- Abstract
This chapter explores the ways and channels through which Turkey-based political parties respond to non-resident citizens through external voting. It firstly provides a brief history of the legislation regulating external voting rights in Turkey. It then examines the representation of non-resident votes in the Turkish electoral system and in the Turkish Parliament. The chapter discusses Turkey-based parties in relation to Turkish elections between 2014 and 2023 by drawing findings from parties’ overseas mobilisation strategies and programmes and from their engagements with diaspora organisations and/or overseas-based organisations formed by these parties for Turkey’s diasporas. It also utilises participatory observation of the overseas... (More)
This chapter explores the ways and channels through which Turkey-based political parties respond to non-resident citizens through external voting. It firstly provides a brief history of the legislation regulating external voting rights in Turkey. It then examines the representation of non-resident votes in the Turkish electoral system and in the Turkish Parliament. The chapter discusses Turkey-based parties in relation to Turkish elections between 2014 and 2023 by drawing findings from parties’ overseas mobilisation strategies and programmes and from their engagements with diaspora organisations and/or overseas-based organisations formed by these parties for Turkey’s diasporas. It also utilises participatory observation of the overseas activities of the electorally most successful Turkey-based political parties, namely, the AKP, the CHP, the HDP/YSP, and the MHP.
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- author
- Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü
LU
- publishing date
- 2024-01-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Routledge Handbook of Turkey’s Diasporas
- editor
- Arkilic, Ayca and Senay, Banu
- pages
- 15 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85202128170
- ISBN
- 9781003269021
- 9781032215709
- 9781032215761
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003269021-20
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Taylor & Francis.
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author = {{Yener-Roderburg, Inci Öykü}},
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title = {{Non-resident Citizen Voting and Transnational Mobilisation of Political Parties : The Case of Turkey}},
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doi = {{10.4324/9781003269021-20}},
year = {{2024}},
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