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Management of Ethno-Cultural Diversity in Turkey: Europeanization of Domestic Politics and New Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Ayhan Kaya
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Turkey has gone through an enormous process of change in the last decade, especially regarding the political recognition of ethno-cultural and religiously diverse groups. The term “diversity” has become one of the catch words of contemporary political philosophy. Diversity, in its recent forms, whether cultural, political, ethnic, or religious, is a byproduct of globalization. Globalization has made the movements of persons or groups in the ethnoscape easier. It is apparent that the management of diversity has posed a great challenge for nation states as well as for the international and supranational organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union (EU).

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , Summer 2010 , pp. 214 - 226
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Copyright © 2010 by the International Association of Law Libraries. 

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