An Analysıs Of Turkey’s Support To The Turkısh-Tatar Mınorıty In Romanıan Dobruja After 1989 Revolutıon

Volume: 3 Number: 2 November 1, 2018
  • Ali Bozçalışkan
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An Analysıs Of Turkey’s Support To The Turkısh-Tatar Mınorıty In Romanıan Dobruja After 1989 Revolutıon

Abstract

The communist regime in Romania oppressed all minorities in every aspect of life for more than fifty years following the WWII in order to create a homogeneous society. Turkish-Tatar minority living in Northern Dobruja was not spared of those suppressive policies and accordingly, its rights related to education in mother tongue was taken away by gradual closing down Turkish schools, specifically the emblematic Muslim Seminary in Medgidia. Moreover, its rights and freedoms related to the religion were put under strict surveillance. Harsh measures of the regime in the two fields eventually caused weakening of the columns of ethnic and cultural identity of the minority. The new democratic era inaugurated in the wake of the 1989 revolution in Romania was promising for all minorities including Turkish and Tatar communities to rediscover their identity-specific values and symbols. At this historical turning point, Turkey’s support was crucial for the minority to reconstruct and restore its cultural and religious heritage. Turkey contributed to this process in moral and material terms by its all relevant institutions and support of its strong private sector. Romania, being aware of extent of Turkey’s influence over the minority and importance of its support facilitated the process in good will. Thus, the Muslim minority turned into a catalyst for improving relations between two countries rather than being a point of conflict

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APA
Bozçalışkan, A. (2018). An Analysıs Of Turkey’s Support To The Turkısh-Tatar Mınorıty In Romanıan Dobruja After 1989 Revolutıon. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi, 3(2), 4-21. https://doi.org/10.26899/inciss.210</doi>
AMA
1.Bozçalışkan A. An Analysıs Of Turkey’s Support To The Turkısh-Tatar Mınorıty In Romanıan Dobruja After 1989 Revolutıon. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi. 2018;3(2):4-21. doi:10.26899/inciss.210</doi>
Chicago
Bozçalışkan, Ali. 2018. “An Analysıs Of Turkey’s Support To The Turkısh-Tatar Mınorıty In Romanıan Dobruja After 1989 Revolutıon”. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi 3 (2): 4-21. https://doi.org/10.26899/inciss.210</doi>
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Bozçalışkan A (November 1, 2018) An Analysıs Of Turkey’s Support To The Turkısh-Tatar Mınorıty In Romanıan Dobruja After 1989 Revolutıon. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi 3 2 4–21.
IEEE
[1]A. Bozçalışkan, “An Analysıs Of Turkey’s Support To The Turkısh-Tatar Mınorıty In Romanıan Dobruja After 1989 Revolutıon”, Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 4–21, Nov. 2018, doi: 10.26899/inciss.210</doi>
ISNAD
Bozçalışkan, Ali. “An Analysıs Of Turkey’s Support To The Turkısh-Tatar Mınorıty In Romanıan Dobruja After 1989 Revolutıon”. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi 3/2 (November 1, 2018): 4-21. https://doi.org/10.26899/inciss.210</doi>
JAMA
1.Bozçalışkan A. An Analysıs Of Turkey’s Support To The Turkısh-Tatar Mınorıty In Romanıan Dobruja After 1989 Revolutıon. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi. 2018;3:4–21.
MLA
Bozçalışkan, Ali. “An Analysıs Of Turkey’s Support To The Turkısh-Tatar Mınorıty In Romanıan Dobruja After 1989 Revolutıon”. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi, vol. 3, no. 2, Nov. 2018, pp. 4-21, doi:10.26899/inciss.210</doi>
Vancouver
1.Ali Bozçalışkan. An Analysıs Of Turkey’s Support To The Turkısh-Tatar Mınorıty In Romanıan Dobruja After 1989 Revolutıon. Uluslararası Medeniyet Çalışmaları Dergisi. 2018 Nov. 1;3(2):4-21. doi:10.26899/inciss.210</doi>