The meaning change of hayır during the Turkish constitutional referendum 2017

Publication date: Available online 21 September 2018Source: Language SciencesAuthor(s): Johannes Woschitz, Emre YağlıAbstractHayır means both 'good' and 'no' in present-day Turkish. Hayır 'good' has been predominantly associated with a religious undertone. Recently, the Neo-Ottoman movement under the AKP has built on this connotation to promote their political ideology. In the 2017 Turkish constitutional referendum, the Turkish people decided whether they wanted to endorse this ideology: Evet (yes) meant increasing the power of the presidency and the AKP, while hayır (no) meant sustaining the competency of the parliamentary system. This led to an odd situation where a pro-democratic vote and a diametral Neo-Ottoman ideology were expressed with the same word. No-voters soon...

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