ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 analyzes the continuities and changes of the Turkish state’s emigrant engagement policies and their implications on home state–emigrant society relations, by comparing with the inquiry of the pre-2003 period. It analyzes the changes of the Turkish state’s policies on citizens living outside of Turkey’s territories in the most recent era, following the AKP’s single party rule and the 2003 Parliamentary Report. This chapter focuses first on how the Turkish state discursively attempts to produce a national diasporic population, which has close ties of allegiance to itself. Second, it analyzes re-configuration of institutional ties between the state and the society living abroad – through reformation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the establishment of a new governance model incorporating a specialized presidency. Third, the chapter builds on a discussion concentrating on the re-definition of citizenship to desegregate increased allegiance with non-resident citizens.
