
Published online:
23 May 2024
Published in print:
22 September 2023
Online ISBN:
9781399519670
Print ISBN:
9781399519656
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Dr Özbank, can you tell us why you decided to leave Turkey and live abroad? Dr Özbank, can you tell us why you decided to leave Turkey and live abroad?
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Does that mean you did not choose Germany as your main destination but love brought you here? Does that mean you did not choose Germany as your main destination but love brought you here?
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You’re a prominent figure among Academics for Peace because you were right in front in that famous picture that came out in the newspapers. Your wife was also a signatory, and she was fired because of it. Did you suffer any hardships or pressure or a legal process where you worked because of this? You’re a prominent figure among Academics for Peace because you were right in front in that famous picture that came out in the newspapers. Your wife was also a signatory, and she was fired because of it. Did you suffer any hardships or pressure or a legal process where you worked because of this?
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How was it psychologically to have your picture constantly in the papers? You see that picture in the papers and head out onto the street, to Beyoğlu, Nişantaşı. What kind of feeling was that? How was it psychologically to have your picture constantly in the papers? You see that picture in the papers and head out onto the street, to Beyoğlu, Nişantaşı. What kind of feeling was that?
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Do you feel like you’re in exile right now? Do you feel like you’re in exile right now?
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As you said, there are some who are unable to go to Turkey because their passports were revoked. Has anyone said to you ‘You can go to Turkey, so you don’t fit in this category’, because of that? Is there such an overt or subtle debate among Turkey’s new intellectual migrants? As you said, there are some who are unable to go to Turkey because their passports were revoked. Has anyone said to you ‘You can go to Turkey, so you don’t fit in this category’, because of that? Is there such an overt or subtle debate among Turkey’s new intellectual migrants?
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You have relationships with groups in Germany which are close to you ideologically, which you knew from Turkey or with which you formed partnerships earlier. These relationships, as far as I understand, continue in the same way. There are also a number of groups abroad right now with which you have a slim possibility of coming together in Turkey. Do you have relationships with them? Is there a situation where you meet at a common denominator or come together? For instance, Gülenists, other Sunni Islamist groups that left the country, those coming from more conservative segments. Do you have any kind of dialogue with these? You have relationships with groups in Germany which are close to you ideologically, which you knew from Turkey or with which you formed partnerships earlier. These relationships, as far as I understand, continue in the same way. There are also a number of groups abroad right now with which you have a slim possibility of coming together in Turkey. Do you have relationships with them? Is there a situation where you meet at a common denominator or come together? For instance, Gülenists, other Sunni Islamist groups that left the country, those coming from more conservative segments. Do you have any kind of dialogue with these?
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What about them? What about them?
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The picture of Academics for Peace and the fact that you’re still writing in Turkey makes you a notable figure. When you encounter Turkish institutions in Germany, do you see any pressure from them because of this visibility? Most simply, you have absolutely had to go to the consulate. You encounter Turkish nationals every day in Germany. Have you encountered a reaction, not directly from a state institution but from people more adjacent to the current regime? The picture of Academics for Peace and the fact that you’re still writing in Turkey makes you a notable figure. When you encounter Turkish institutions in Germany, do you see any pressure from them because of this visibility? Most simply, you have absolutely had to go to the consulate. You encounter Turkish nationals every day in Germany. Have you encountered a reaction, not directly from a state institution but from people more adjacent to the current regime?
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If I’m not mistaken, you had lived abroad for this long when you did your PhD, correct? If I’m not mistaken, you had lived abroad for this long when you did your PhD, correct?
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So this is your longest stay outside the country after your PhD. Has leaving Turkey, new encounters, what you experienced led you to interpret Turkey differently? So this is your longest stay outside the country after your PhD. Has leaving Turkey, new encounters, what you experienced led you to interpret Turkey differently?
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We are conducting interviews with people from many different groups for this study, and we see that everyone has a separate Turkey, a separate breaking point. For you, what is the breaking point that caused you to be in Germany today? We are conducting interviews with people from many different groups for this study, and we see that everyone has a separate Turkey, a separate breaking point. For you, what is the breaking point that caused you to be in Germany today?
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Do you see yourself returning to Turkey? Do you see yourself returning to Turkey?
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Cite
Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi, and Bahar Baser, 'Murat Özbank', An Exodus from Turkey: Tales of Migration and Exile (Edinburgh , 2023; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781399519656.003.0016, accessed 7 May 2025.
Abstract
Interview with Murat Ozbank
Subject
Middle Eastern Studies
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