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Turkey’s Diaspora Governance: Policies from the Past to the Present (2025)
Book
Baser, B., Öztürk, A. E., & Taş, H. (Eds.). (2025). Turkey’s Diaspora Governance: Policies from the Past to the Present. Routledge

This book examines Turkey's evolving diaspora policies, analysing how the state engages, controls, and mobilizes its overseas communities as tools of diplomacy and nation-building. Through an interdisciplinary lens, it highlights the political, ideol... Read More about Turkey’s Diaspora Governance: Policies from the Past to the Present.

Diaspora Exclusion in Divided Home States: Israel and Turkey Compared (2025)
Journal Article
Grossman, J., Böcü, G., & Baser, B. (online). Diaspora Exclusion in Divided Home States: Israel and Turkey Compared. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, https://doi.org/10.1177/03043754251324679

This article examines how home states define and redefine membership within ‘their’ diaspora and how certain groups and individuals are excluded from this conception through discourse, policy and practice. We argue that ontological security, or the s... Read More about Diaspora Exclusion in Divided Home States: Israel and Turkey Compared.

Diasporic Memory (2024)
Book Chapter
Baser, B. (2025). Diasporic Memory. In L. M. Bietti, & M. Pogacar (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93789-8

In a globalized world, also memory and processes of remembrance have become transnational. Individuals and groups nurture and preserve memories of the past and of places they have left; they generate new memories and experiences in virtual spaces; an... Read More about Diasporic Memory.

Youth Responses to State-Manufactured Diaspora Mobilization: Turkey's Diaspora Governance and the Politics of Selective Engagement (2024)
Journal Article
Baser, B., & Bocu, G. (2024). Youth Responses to State-Manufactured Diaspora Mobilization: Turkey's Diaspora Governance and the Politics of Selective Engagement. Globalizations, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2306724

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has implemented transnational policies to strengthen ties among diaspora youth in Europe with Turkey. However, these policies have been highly selective and geared towards regime-loyal groups in the... Read More about Youth Responses to State-Manufactured Diaspora Mobilization: Turkey's Diaspora Governance and the Politics of Selective Engagement.

Inherited Traumas in Diaspora: Postmemory, Past-presencing and Mobilisation of Second-Generation Kurds in Europe (2023)
Journal Article
Baser, B., & Toivanen, M. H. (2024). Inherited Traumas in Diaspora: Postmemory, Past-presencing and Mobilisation of Second-Generation Kurds in Europe. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47(2), 297-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2261288

This article examines the way in which conflict-generated diasporas pass on collective memories of a violent past onto the next generation. It contributes to uncovering the intergenerational memory transmission patterns in the diaspora by examining h... Read More about Inherited Traumas in Diaspora: Postmemory, Past-presencing and Mobilisation of Second-Generation Kurds in Europe.

An Exodus from Turkey: Tales of Migration and Exile (2023)
Book
Erdi Öztürk, A., & Baser, B. (2023). An Exodus from Turkey: Tales of Migration and Exile. Edinburgh University Press

Examines the current wave of migration from Turkey through the experiences of 21 public figures in exile
Features interviews with 21 Turkish public figures: Barbaros Sansal; Bulent Somay; Can Dundar; Deniz (nickname); Engin Sustam; Eser Karakas; Fat... Read More about An Exodus from Turkey: Tales of Migration and Exile.

Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects (2023)
Journal Article
Eyrice Tepeciklioğlu, E., Vreÿ, F., & Baser, B. (2023). Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 26(3), 289-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2023.2236514

Turkey's presence in Africa has experienced significant growth over the last two decades. In recent years, Turkey's expanding African outreach has transformed media narratives and generated a surge of scholarly studies on Turkey's involvement in Afri... Read More about Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects.

Pathways to Conflict Transportation and Autonomisation: The Armenian Diaspora and the Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh (2023)
Journal Article
Féron, É., & Baser, B. (2023). Pathways to Conflict Transportation and Autonomisation: The Armenian Diaspora and the Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Ethnopolitics, 22(4), 384-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2023.2199601

Since its inception the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has generated multiple narratives in the region itself, in Armenia and Azerbaijan, and in the concerned diasporas. The war that occurred in 2020 engendered high levels of diasporic mobilisation, but i... Read More about Pathways to Conflict Transportation and Autonomisation: The Armenian Diaspora and the Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.