Kimliklenerek Toplumla Bütünleşme: Türkiye’deki Ermeni Ve Yahudi Örgütlenmeleri Aktörlerinin Kimlik Algilari Ve Stratejileri Integration Into Society By
Identification: The Identity Perceptions and the Strategies Followed by Actors of Armenian and Jewish Organizations in Turkey

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the efforts of Armenian and Jewish minority population in Turkey taking place in the Armenian and Jewish identity movement, against the assimilation by protecting and introducing their identities. The study also shows their efforts for being visible in the society by selfidentification in today’s Turkey. The main purpose of the study is to show that the outreach process of the Armenians and the Jews, which started in 1990's, contains an effort for introducing their identities to the other groups and majority by media and cultural activities, for protecting their cultural values that are in danger of disappearance. This process entails to be integrated into the society instead of to be assimilated by it or in other words, to be "Turkey-fied" instead of "Turkified". By embarking from the datas gathered from the interviewees, who are significant figures of their ethnic groups, the study indicates that the outreach process leans on an identity strategy, which is shared by the actors of both of the two groups, "to become integrated with self- identification". Even though our interviewees execute by administrators, active members and opinion leaders of Armenian and Jewish organizations, our study, does not focus on the organizations’ statements and discourses. Rather it comprises of the individual and subjective discourses of them. In other words, our study leans on the evaluation of the identity perceptions and the strategies of the active actors among the Armenians and the Jews with a comparative approach.

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