ABSTRACT

This article scrutinizes Turkish Cypriot elites’ legitimation strategies of sustaining internal legitimacy in the absence of international recognition and coping with challenges rising from the international context, parent state’s pressure and patron state’s meddling. The article links the sustainability of North Cyprus’ unrecognized statehood to two major factors. Firstly, parent’s counter-recognition policies and despair of repeatedly failing negotiations result in a backlash among Turkish Cypriots, forging internal unity. Secondly, the degree of political pluralism allows peaceful transfer of power amongst various elite groups, resulting in use of diverse and often conflicting legitimation strategies to better cope with legitimacy challenges.

摘要

本文审视土族塞人精英在缺乏国际承认的情况下维持内部合法性的合法化策略，以及应对来自国际背景、母国压力和庇护国干预的挑战。这篇文章将北塞浦路斯未被承认的国家地位的可持续性与两个主要因素联系起来。首先，父母的反承认政策和谈判屡屡失败的绝望导致土族塞人的强烈反对，从而形成了内部团结。其次，政治多元化的程度允许权力在不同的精英群体之间和平转移，导致使用多样化且经常相互冲突的合法化策略来更好地应对合法性挑战。