ETHNIC TATARS IN ROMANIA

Volume: 2 Number: 2 December 1, 2013
  • Tamás Csernyeı
EN TR

ETHNIC TATARS IN ROMANIA

Abstract

The ever multiethnic region of the Romanian Dobrudja (i.e. North-­‐Dobrudja) shelters a national minority of a decreasing number known as Dobrudjan Tatar, a historical diaspora of the Crimean Tatar ethnicity. After a troubled past which repeatedly found Tatars on often disputed imperial borderlands, where they were subsequently pushed onto the front line of political struggles, and having survived the vindictive wrath of the Soviets and their satellites, today – between redefined interethnic dynamics – we witness a period of identity-­‐building and the revival of Turko-­‐Tatar ethno-­‐cultural life.Yet their survival as a distinct ethnic group seems far from assured. Confined between the influences of the Romanian majority community and the commercially and culturally omnipresent Turks (to whom they are bound by a much cherished kinship), but lacking a strong cultural hinterland, it remains to be seen what new shapes their ethno-­‐cultural existence shall assume. Faced with the all too likely prospect of assimilation by the Romanian or Turkish community, young Tatar intellectuals assumed the struggle of national revival reclaiming their roots on ancestral lands from which they were almost irrevocably alienated by the nationalistic autarchy of past regimes. After offering a short description of the main aspects of Tatars’ community life, the author makes an attempt to highlight the most relevant shortcomings of their national movement to conclude that the most compelling task to be tackled is the revitalisation of the Tatar literary language and language identity.

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Turkish

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Tamás Csernyeı This is me

Publication Date

December 1, 2013

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December 1, 2013

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Year 2013 Volume: 2 Number: 2

APA
Csernyeı, T. (2013). ROMANYA’DAKİ ETNİK TATARLAR. Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi, 2(2), 255-271. https://izlik.org/JA74ZT76XU
AMA
1.Csernyeı T. ROMANYA’DAKİ ETNİK TATARLAR. JofEL. 2013;2(2):255-271. https://izlik.org/JA74ZT76XU
Chicago
Csernyeı, Tamás. 2013. “ROMANYA’DAKİ ETNİK TATARLAR”. Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi 2 (2): 255-71. https://izlik.org/JA74ZT76XU.
EndNote
Csernyeı T (December 1, 2013) ROMANYA’DAKİ ETNİK TATARLAR. Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi 2 2 255–271.
IEEE
[1]T. Csernyeı, “ROMANYA’DAKİ ETNİK TATARLAR”, JofEL, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 255–271, Dec. 2013, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA74ZT76XU
ISNAD
Csernyeı, Tamás. “ROMANYA’DAKİ ETNİK TATARLAR”. Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi 2/2 (December 1, 2013): 255-271. https://izlik.org/JA74ZT76XU.
JAMA
1.Csernyeı T. ROMANYA’DAKİ ETNİK TATARLAR. JofEL. 2013;2:255–271.
MLA
Csernyeı, Tamás. “ROMANYA’DAKİ ETNİK TATARLAR”. Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi, vol. 2, no. 2, Dec. 2013, pp. 255-71, https://izlik.org/JA74ZT76XU.
Vancouver
1.Tamás Csernyeı. ROMANYA’DAKİ ETNİK TATARLAR. JofEL [Internet]. 2013 Dec. 1;2(2):255-71. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA74ZT76XU