ABSTRACT
This chapter explores Turkey’s diaspora engagement politics concerning the Turkish and Armenian diaspora communities during the rule of the Justice and Development Party and aims to show the specific strategies and discourses employed by the Turkish state to engage with these two communities. In line with this purpose, the chapter discusses how the Turkish population abroad has come to be recognised as a politically significant category of practice and constructed as a diasporic community by the Turkish state. It also concentrates on how the diaspora-making of the Turkish community is planned to become a counterforce against the Armenian diaspora through state-sanctioned institutions.
