Le YÖK et la démobilisation collective du milieu universitaire en Turquie (1982-1987) : les mécanismes de la répression

• Main Author: Murat Yılmaz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association pour la Recherche sur le Moyen-Orient 2014-04-01
• Series: European Journal of Turkish Studies
• Subjects: students protest; YÖK; mechanisms of repression; 1980 military coup; demobilization of universities
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/ejts/4800

The aim of this article is to study the effect of repression on the demobilization of the academic milieu in Turkey in the dictatorial context of the 1980s. Based on interviews, it highlights the key role played by the Council of the Higher education (Yüksek Öğretim Kurulu-YÖK) in the demobilization of students' protest movements within universities. By articulating the three levels of analysis (macro-meso-micro) and by adopting an interactionist approach, our article demonstrates how the various forms of repression implemented by the repressive agents have constrained the engaged students to modify their repertoire of action. This shift in the mode of action that means the adoption of the less visible activities and the move of militancy into underground, has resulted in the withdrawal of student’s protest outside the university and the demobilization of Turkish campuses.