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discussion I have been working and thinking against this diasporic imagination. It is clear that
the rhetorical structures of Turkish media are disrupted in transnational context. This context
might actually be working to subvert the diasporic imagination and its imperatives of
identification and belonging. Just like Ismail thinks that Turkey is a country of contrary and
media shows some other Turkey which is not like that in realty. He wants a quite life, but
Turkey is fast and chaotic. So the minds may provide a more significant research focus than
the identities.
This means moving the agenda away from the problem of migrant or deported culture and
identity to how it is they experience this being thousands miles away, and how they think and
talk about their experiences. In this study I pointed out the cognitive dissonance experienced
by Ahiska Turks in Kyrgyzstan in negotiating the discourses of watching satellite
media/television from Turkey and their own lived reality.
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