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Etkinlikler / Upcoming activities
16 Haziran
/ June 2008
18:00
Lecture / Konferans
(ingilizce) The changing perspective?
Pragmatists and Opportunists in
Dutch-Turkish relations, 1947-1974
René Rouwette
Abstract: About
thirty-five years before Geert Wilders’ film Fitna, the Dutch
parliamentarian Peter Dankert also brought the world a political
movie. The film was a symbol of the changing Dutch climate in the
long sixties, especially in foreign affairs. In a field wherein up
until then consensus was always more important than political
discussion, the application of an antagonistic approach took place.
Dankert had a clear mission; to show the world the so-called Turkish
human rights violations of 1971-1973, to mobilize the masses and
lure policymakers into denouncing Turkey. The film bypassed the
diplomats from the ministry of Foreign Affairs who were making
policy for years and were keen on keeping this field clear from
strangers, especially people like Dankert. In this lecture René
Rouwette will lead us through the world of Dutch diplomacy towards
Turkey and its domestic politics between 1947 and 1974; a time of
Turkish institutional occidentalisation, Cold War and
democratization, but also a period of military coups, alleged
Turkish backwardness, economic problems and Islamite revival, and an
era which is essential in the development of the current view on
Dutch-Turkish relations and the Dutch opinion on Turkey’s accession
to the European Union. Rouwette will explicitly answer four
questions: How did the Dutch diplomats report on Turkey, what
prejudices did they have, and to what direct and indirect
consequences did this lead? Did the changing climate of the sixties
alter relations by ending the reign of sovereignty which was typical
for a diplomat-oriented foreign policy? Did this lead to political
interventions, international condemnations and the introduction of
domestic politics in multilateral diplomacy and treaty negotiations?
And finally, how did Turkey respond to the diplomat-oriented policy
and polarization tactics?
René Rouwette studied political history at the Radboud University
in Nijmegen (Netherlands) and Virginia Tech (United States). At the
moment he is about to finish a research master in history at the
University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). Rouwette specializes in Dutch
history and International Relations, Dutch foreign policy in the
20th century in particular. For his thesis he spend about six to
seven months working in the archives of the Dutch ministry of
Foreign Affairs, analyzing Dutch political reports from the embassy
in Ankara and policy papers concerned with Turkish internal politics
and the Turkish accession to NATO, Council of Europe and the EEG
from between 1947 and 1974. On this topic Rouwette has already
published an article for the Dutch Turkey Institute in The Hague
called ‘A true friend also speaks bitter words’.
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