Identity of Crimean Tatars

Year 2020, Issue: 92, 163 - 184, 31.01.2020

Ülkü Nur Zengin

https://doi.org/10.12995/bilig.9207

Abstract

The Crimean Tatars are a community worthy of study without losing their conscience despite all the pressures in their history. Their loyalty to their history and their
homeland has kept them together despite the genocide and exile they have experienced. The aim of this study is to evaluate the identity building process of the Crimean Tatars in the context of nationalist theories. It will be revealed in our work that Tatar nationalism, which is based on historical leader and symbolic values, can be explained by ethno-symbolism. In the study, firstly ethno-symbolism will be given and then the identity building process of the Crimean Tatars will be examined.

Keywords

Crimean Tatars, nationalism, identity, ethno-symbolism, nation, USSR

Kırım Tatarları’nda Kimlik

Abstract

Kırım Tatarları tarihlerindeki her türlü baskıya rağmen millet bilincini kaybetmemesiyle incelemeye değer bir topluluktur. Tarihlerine ve vatanlarına olan bağlılıkları
yaşadıkları soykırım ve sürgüne rağmen onları bir arada tutmuştur. Bu çalışmanın amacı da Kırım Tatarları’nın kimlik inşa sürecini milliyetçilik kuramları bağlamında
değerlendirmektir. Tarihten kopmadan lider ve sembolik değerler üzerine inşa edilen Tatar milliyetçiliğinin etno- sembolizm ile açıklanabileceği çalışmamızda ortaya
konulacaktır. Çalışmada öncelikle etno-sembolizm hakkında bilgi verilip ardından Kırım Tatarlarının kimlik inşa süreçleri incelenecektir.

Keywords

Kırım Tatarları, milliyetçilik, kimlik, etno-sembolizm, millet, SSCB

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