Citizenship and the problem of discontinuation in Turkey between 1960–2000, with changing aspects

The aim of this thesis is to examine the changing content of the concept of citizenship in the historical process and to investigate the decisions to remove citizenship taken in the Republic of Turkey between 1960-2000 in the axis of the political and social events of the period. For this purpose, the governments that served between the years of 1960-2000 and the decisions to remove citizenship taken during these governments were scanned from archive documents and associated with the period taken as a basis. According to the available data obtained, deprivation of citizenship is not independent of the social, political, cultural and economic developments of the period, whether at the request of the state or at the request of the citizen. It has resulted that the concept of citizenship has been given new meanings in each period depending on external and internal developments, and in parallel with this, the inclusiveness of the understanding of citizenship in each period is different. Although deprivation of citizenship are legal decisions, they are also political decisions in terms of their causes and consequences. For this reason, as the political environment changed, the concept of citizenship was reshaped legally and politically. At the same time, it has been determined that the concept of citizenship and deprivation of citizenship are closely related to a country's foreign policy and developments in the world. Key Words: Citizenship, Politics, Ethnic, Denationalization