Abstract
Despite Turkey being a culturally heterogeneous country, the primordial narrative of current Turkish nationalism - regardless whether arguing from secular or from Islamist angles - does not allow for cultural diversity and plurality. This article challenges the holistic and exclusionary notion of culture that underlies present Turkish nationalism by shedding light on how the appropriation of multiple identities by second and third generation Germany-born women in Turkey is eluding ascriptions of identity divided among we/them lines. Against the backdrop of frameworks that describe identity as fluid, relational, multiple and imagined, the article will analyze the findings of an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Istanbul in 2013. Rather than a holistic “either/or” dualism of belonging where social practices only take place in the container space, “as well as” transnational social practices in both countries are analyzed, among others, with respect to biographic memories and imaginations, communication and...
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