Ethnicity and religiosity-based prejudice in Turkey: Evidence from a survey experiment

SE Aytaç, A Çarkoğlu - International Political Science Review, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
International Political Science Review, 2019journals.sagepub.com
Threat perceptions and prejudice underlie a large number of intergroup conflicts. In this
article we explore prejudicial attitudes in Turkey regarding ethnic Kurdish and devout
Muslim religious identities as opposed to Turkish and less observant, secular identities.
Utilizing a population-based survey experiment, we use vignettes about a hypothetical
family as a neighbour, with randomized ethnicity and religiosity-related cues. We find
evidence for prejudice against Kurdish ethnicity, especially among older, lowly-educated …
Threat perceptions and prejudice underlie a large number of intergroup conflicts. In this article we explore prejudicial attitudes in Turkey regarding ethnic Kurdish and devout Muslim religious identities as opposed to Turkish and less observant, secular identities. Utilizing a population-based survey experiment, we use vignettes about a hypothetical family as a neighbour, with randomized ethnicity and religiosity-related cues. We find evidence for prejudice against Kurdish ethnicity, especially among older, lowly-educated and economically dissatisfied individuals. The level of prejudice against Kurds does not seem to be related to the relative size of the Kurdish population in the local population. We do not observe prejudice against devout Muslim or less observant, secular identities. Our findings indicate that prejudice against Kurds in Turkey does not have a sui generis nature. The lack of prejudice across the religiosity dimension suggests that major socio-political cleavages do not necessarily affect intergroup attitudes.
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