Responsibility to protect European identity: how do Orbán and Erdoğan expand Europe’s boundaries of international protection?

Tarik Basbugoglu, Umut Korkut

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Abstract

Turkey and Hungary have become two important cases through which to investigate the development of anti-European Union narratives. In this case study, we try to express how the Turkish and the Hungarian political elite sought to construct their humanitarian narratives to criticise the European Union during the Syrian refugee crisis. First, we explain how the Turkish political elite aimed to construct a Muslim self to vicariously identify with the Syrian Sunni Arabs. Second, we show how the Hungarian political elite sought to create a Christian self, so as to consider Middle Eastern Christians and European citizens as an extension of the Hungarian populace. In this chapter, we use speeches by members of the Turkish and Hungarian political elite as our data to investigate how these elites appealed to their domestic public audiences from 2011 to 2020.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationContesting Cosmopolitan Europe : Euroscepticism, Crisis and Borders
EditorsJames Foley, Umut Korkut
PublisherAmsterdam University Press
Pages85-104
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9789048553907
ISBN (Print)9789463727259
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Aug 2022

Keywords

  • Turkey
  • Hungary
  • migration
  • periphery
  • Orban
  • Erdogan

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