Uygur Diasporasının Dijital Ortamdaki Faaliyetleri: Kimlik ve Anavatan Meselesi

Year 2014, Volume , Issue 69, 143 - 160, 01.12.2014

Işık Kuşçu

Abstract

Uygur diaspora grupları, 1950´lerden bu yana uluslararası platformlarda anavatan meselesini duyurmak için çeşitli faaliyetlerde bulunmaktadır. Bu amaçla dernekler kurmak, konferanslar düzenlemek, basın bildirileri dağıtmak ve kitap, dergi, kitapçık gibi yazılı basın araçlarından yararlanmak suretiyle sesini duyurmaya çalışmıştır. Ancak yaklaşık son 10 yıldır, Uygur diasporası yeni bir iletişim aracından, internetten yararlanmaya baş- lamıştır. Bu makalede çeşitli diaspora internet siteleri ve forumlarının incelenmesi suretiyle, Uygur diasporasının internetteki faaliyetlerinin, Uygur milli kimliği ve diasporanın birlik ve beraberliği üzerindeki etkileri incelenmektedir. İnternetin anavatan meselesini uluslararası kamuoyuna duyurmak ve anavatandaki Uygurların durumlarıyla ilgili kamuoyunu bilgilendirmek konularındaki katkıları da yine bu makelenin konusunu oluş- turmaktadır. Makalede bu analiz ilk kuşak Uygur diaspora temsilcilerinin faaliyetleri ve söylemleriyle karşılaştırmalı olarak yapılacaktır. Buradaki amaç ise iki kuşak söylemleri arasındaki benzerliklere ve faaliyet ile söylemlerdeki devamlılığa işaret etmektir.

Keywords

Uygur, diaspora, internet, anavatan, millikimlik

The Uyghur Diaspora in Cyberspace: Identity and Homeland Cause

Abstract

Since the 1950s, the Uyghur diaspora communities have engaged in a wide array of activities to transnationalize the case of Uyghurs in the homeland. Uyghur diaspora have traditionally organized around associations and worked towards transnationalizing the homeland cause through conferences, press releases, printed materials such as books and journals as well as booklets and pamphlets. For the last decade or so though, Uyghur diaspora groups are benefiting from a new means of communication, the Internet. By analyzing different Uyghur diaspora websites and forums, this article aims to examine how the Internet has helped this community to create awareness about the condition of Uyghurs in the homeland. This article also attempts to analyze how the Internet has contributed to a unified national identity as well as to a greater cohesion within the diaspora. At the same time, I compare this recent Internet activity with the actions and discourse of the earlier Uyghur diaspora in order to find out about the parallels between the two discourses

Keywords

Uyghur, diaspora, Internet, homeland, national identity

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