How Social Democrats Have Reacted to Migrants: Turkish and German Samples

Year 2023, Volume: 12 Issue: 1, 20 - 33, 28.03.2023

Onur Alp Yılmaz

https://doi.org/10.53306/klujfeas.1251181

Abstract

In this study, the discourses of the CHP and the SPD on Syrian migrants were evaluated. In this study which was carried out for this purpose, firstly, the migration narrative of Turkey and Germany were defined, and then SPD and CHP’s position on this issue were discussed. In this respect, the CHP’s and SPD’s discourses in the media and some of their party documents had been evaluated within path dependency theory. In this context, how the different conjunctures in the two countries affected the universal claims of social democracy and how these two different social democratic parties took positions within the scope of these effects were also evaluated.

Keywords

SPD, CHP, Migration, Migrants

Sosyal Demokratların Göçmenlere Yaklaşımı: Türk ve Alman Örnekleri

Abstract

Bu çalışmada CHP ve SPD'nin Suriyeli göçmenlere yönelik söylemleri değerlendirilmektedir. Bu amaçla gerçekleştirilen bu çalışmada öncelikle Türkiye ve Almanya'nın göç anlatısı tanımlanmış, ardından SPD ve CHP'nin bu konudaki duruşu ele alınmıştır. Bu bağlamda CHP ve SPD'nin medyadaki söylemleri ve bazı parti belgeleri yol bağımlılığı teorisi kapsamında değerlendirilmiştir. Bu bağlamda iki ülkedeki farklı konjonktürlerin sosyal demokrasinin evrensel iddialarını nasıl etkilediği ve bu iki farklı sosyal demokrat partinin bu etkiler kapsamında nasıl pozisyon aldığı da değerlendirilmiştir.

Keywords

CHP, SPD, Göç, Göçmen

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