Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey
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AKP Rule
AKP's Cultural Policy
arts management
Author_Burcu Yasemin Seyben
Authoritarianism and Art
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cultural studies
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Kemalist Cultural Policy
media studies
Middle Eastern Studies
Theater in Turkey
theater institutions
Theater systems
Turkish AKP Government
Turkish Theater Institutions
Turkish Theatre
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- ISBN 9781793608598
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 162 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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After the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in Turkey in 2002, the AKP grew into an authoritarian government as it politically and culturally oppressed citizens and institutions. In Struggle and Survival under Authoritarianism in Turkey: Theatre under Threat, Burcu Yasemin Seybenargues thattheatre was deliberately targeted because theatre institutions and companies embodied the cultural program of the statist and Kemalist cultural policy that has continually excluded Muslims and various religious and ethnic minorities. Although the AKP claimed to be replacing the top-down, discriminatory, and secular statist and Kemalist theatre system with a facilitative and inclusive one, the AKP gradually adapted a more authoritarian system, as evidenced by their efforts to close and defund theatres, ban plays, and force theatre artists to exile. Despite the AKP’s increasing oppression, Seybenstudies contemporary Turkish theatre to establish that a few theatre institutions, companies, and artists have managed to survive and develop democratic cultural policies and strategies that will outlive the AKP government.
Burcu Yasemin Seyben is a theatre and general education instructor at the College of Southern Idaho.
