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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

Seçkin Sertdemir
Seçkin Sertdemir
Affiliation:
University of Turku, Finland

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Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey
Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State
 , pp. xx - xxii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

Abbreviations

AKP

Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi)

BTK

Information and Communication Technologies Authority (Bilgi Teknolojileri ve İletişim Kurumu)

CHP

Republican People’s Party (Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi)

CİMER

Presidential Communication Centre (Cumhurbaşkanlığı İletişim Merkezi)

DHKP-C

Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Partisi-Cephesi)

DİSK

Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (Türkiye Devrimci İşçi Sendikaları Konfederasyonu)

DİTİB

Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (Diyanet İşleri Türk-İslam Birliği)

Diyanet

Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı)

DTCF

Ankara University’s Faculty of Languages, History, and Geography (Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi)

ECtHR

European Court of Human Rights

Eğitim-Sen

Education and Science Labourers Union (Eğitim ve Bilim Emekçileri Sendikası)

FETÖ/PDY

Fetullah Terrorist Organisation/Parallel State Organisation (Fethullahçı Terör Örgütü/Paralel Devlet Yapılanması)

HDK

Peoples’ Democratic Congress (Halkların Demokratik Kongresi)

HDP

People’s Democratic Party (Halkların Demokratik Partisi)

ISIS

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

KESK

Confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions (Kamu Emekçileri Sendikaları Konfederasyonu)

KHK’lı

purged people, those purged by emergency decree, literally, ‘emergency decreed’ (Kanun Hükmünde Kararnameli); someone who has been purged via decree during the two-year-long post-2016 coup attempt state of emergency

MHP

Nationalist Movement Party (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi)

MİT

National Intelligence Service (Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı)

NSO

NSO Group Technologies

OHA Commission

State of Emergency Inquiry Commission (Olağanüstü Hal İşlemleri İnceleme Komisyonu)

PKK

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê)

SADAT

SADAT International Defence Consultancy

SES

Union of Employees in Public Health and Social Services (Sağlık ve Sosyal Hizmet Emekçileri Sendikası)

TİB

Telecommunication and Communication Directorate (Telekomünikasyon İletişim Başkanlığı)

TMMOB

Turkish Union of Engineers’ and Architects’ Chambers (Türk Mühendis ve Mimar Odaları Birliği)

YÖK

Council of Higher Education (Yükseköğretim Kurulu)

YPG/PYD

People’s Defence Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Gel), a Kurdish militia and political party in Syria

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