The international political language on terrorism should be taken seriously within IR, both due to its prevalence, its distributing of identities, and its role in the legitimisation of policies. Taking a discourse-theoretical perspective where ‘global terrorism’ is a political concept rather than a distinct empirical object, this article studies Turkish representations of terrorism within the United Nations and the NATO Centre of Excellence: Defence Against Terrorism. By analysing speeches and newsletter articles between 2001 and 2013, I show how global terrorism discourse serves as a political resource by allowing for three main dynamics: (1) articulating specific, regional conflicts to the idea of a global terrorist threat—in this case that with the PKK, (2) the tainting of an enemy through association with a fundamentally illegitimate terrorist identity, and (3) the representation of a rightful and shared international Self, with the terrorist as constitutive Other. The article emphasises how the language used by the Turkish actors is not idiosyncratic or arbitrary; rather, it draws from shared and well-established rhetorical resources.

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一种统治他们所有人的恐怖主义：土耳其、库尔德工人党和全球恐怖主义话语

国际关系中关于恐怖主义的国际政治语言应该被认真对待，因为它的普遍性、身份的分布以及它在政策合法化中的作用。本文从“全球恐怖主义”是一个政治概念而不是一个独特的经验对象的话语理论角度研究了土耳其在联合国和北约卓越中心：防御恐怖主义中对恐怖主义的表述。通过分析 2001 年至 2013 年间的演讲和时事通讯文章，我展示了全球恐怖主义话语如何通过考虑三个主要动态来充当政治资源：(1) 将具体的地区冲突与全球恐怖主义威胁的想法联系起来——在这种情况下，与PKK，(2) 通过与根本上非法的恐怖分子身份联系来玷污敌人，以及 (3) 代表一个合法的和共享的国际自我，恐怖分子是构成性的他者。这篇文章强调了土耳其演员使用的语言是如何不是特殊的或任意的；相反，它来自共享和完善的修辞资源。