The Impact of Suicide Attacks on Voting Behavior: The Case of November 2015 Early Elections

Yıl 2018, Sayı: 30 - MEDYA ve DEMOKRASİ, 93 - 114, 25.10.2018

Ceren Yegen

https://doi.org/10.17829/turcom.471067

Öz

Terror aims to disrupt peace and security of countries. Suicide attacks, a form of terrorism is carried out in many parts of the world today. These attacks aiming at destroying countries and citizens, and targeting civilians or state institutions, have been the current agenda in Turkey with cases such as Suruc Attack and Ankara Railway Station Attack following the June 7, 2015, elections and the Syrian Civil War. These attacks, which deeply affect the citizens and harm the country, can also have an impacton political behaviors such as social practices. Individuals, as voters, may vote under the influence of political and social events. In this study, effects of suicide attacks in Turkey on voting behavior were demonstrated by means of a reception analysis on the example of the Ankara Train Station Attack (October 10, 2015). In this way, how suicide attacks in Turkey reflected on voting behavior concerning the November 1, 2015, Early Elections was analyzed. The ethnographic method was used in the study. As the conclusion of the study,the individuals were observed to be aware of the fact that the real purpose of terrorism was to scare and harm. The participants supported the government in case of the suicide attacks and other terrorist attacks. The majority of the participants believed thatthe suicide attack, whichtook place in the train station intersection in Ankara,would have no effect on the behaviors of the voters for the Early Elections of November 1, 2015.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Turkey, Terror, Suicide Attack, Elections, Voting Behavior

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