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  • ICNC Glossary of Key Terms - Turkish

ICNC Glossary of Key Terms - Turkish

The first step in creating high-quality translations in the field of civil resistance is translating key terms.

Initially, we developed a list of 91 key terms that had specific meaning in the field of civil resistance and worked with translators to translate these terms. We have subsequently expanded this list to 159 terms, and ICNC President Hardy Merriman and ICNC Senior Advisor Nicola Barrach have produced a glossary (to be published in 2019) that defines each of these terms and provides commentary on each and examples of usage.

You can see standardized translations of key terms in Turkish below.
 

English Turkish Comments
1 Accommodation
(as a result of civil resistance)
2 Accommodate
(as a result of civil resistance)
3 Accountability hesap verebilirlik
4 Activist aktivist/eylemci
5 Adversary
6 Agency
(human agency)
7 Agent provocateur
8 Ally
(verb)
9 Ally
(noun)
10 Alternative institutions alternatif kurumlar
11 Authoritarian rule otoriter yönetim
12 Authority otorite
13 Backlash ters tepme
(what is the difference between backlash and backfire? We have more or less the same meanings in Turkish.)
14 Backfire
(verb)
geri tepme
15 Backfire
(noun)
16 Banners pankart/ afiş
17 Blockade
(associated with civil resistance)
(noun)
blokaj
18 Blockade
(associated with civil resistance)
(verb)
19 Boycott
(noun)
boykot
20 Boycott
(verb)
21 Campaign
(associated with civil resistance)
(noun)
kampanya
22 Campaign
(verb)
kampanya
23 Capacity kapasite
24 Civil disobedience sivil itaatsizlik
25 Civil resistance sivil direniş
26 Civil society sivil toplum
27 Civilian-based defense
28 Coalition
29 Commission,
tactic(s) or act(s) of
30 Concentration,
tactic(s) of
31 Conditions
32 Consent
(political)
(noun)
33 Consent
(political)
(verb)
34 Conflict
(noun)
35 Constructive programme
(or “constructive program”)
36 Conversion
37 Coup d’etat
(or “coup”)
38 Crackdown
(noun)
şiddetli baskı
39 Crackdown
(verb)
40 Defect
(associated with civil resistance)
(verb)
41 Defection taraf değiştirme
42 Demonstration
43 Dictatorship
44 Dilemma action
45 Direct action
46 Disintegration
(associated with civil resistance)
47 Dispersion, tactics of
48 Disrupt
49 Dissent
(noun)
50 Dissident muhalif
51 Disruption durdurma /işleyişi durdurma
52 Dynamics
(of civil resistance)
53 Empower
54 Empowerment
55 Escalate
(in conflict)
(verb)
56 Escalation
(in conflict)
(noun)
57 External actor
58 External support dış destek
59 Failure
(associated with civil resistance)
60 Frame
(communication)
(verb)
61 Frame
(communication)
(noun)
62 Freedom
(political)
özgürlük
63 Freedom of Assembly
64 Freedom of Association
65 Freedom of Speech
(or freedom of expression)
ifade özgürlüğü
66 Goal
67 Grassroots
(adjective)
“otkökü” however it’s very rarely used. we also do not use “grassroot” alone; “grassroot organisation” is ”taban örgütlenmesi”
68 Grassroots
(noun)
69 Grand strategy Genel ilkeler
(kampanyanın)
70 Grievances yakınma
71 Human rights defender
(HRD)
72 Leadership
73 Legitimacy meşruluk
74 Loyalty shift
75 Mass demonstration kitlesel gösteri
76 Mechanisms of change
77 Methods of nonviolent action şiddetsiz eylem yöntemleri
78 Marches yürüyüş
79 Mobilization
80 Mobilizing mobilizasyon /harekete geçme- geçirme
81 Movement ”hareket” but it doesn’t give a sense so we prefer to use social or where appropriate political movement which is ¨sosyal ya da politik hareket”
82 Non-state actor
83 Nonviolent
(or non-violent)
şiddetsiz
84 Noncooperation işbirliği yapmama / işbirliksizlik
85 Nonviolent action şiddetsiz eylem
86 Nonviolent coercion şiddetsiz zorlama /baskı
87 Nonviolent conflict şiddetsiz çatışkı
88 Nonviolent direct action
89 Nonviolent discipline şiddetsiz disiplin
90 Nonviolence
(religious, ethical, etc.)
şiddetsizlik
(dini, etik, vs)
91 Nonviolent intervention şiddetsiz müdahale
92 Nonviolent struggle şiddetsiz mücadele
93 Obedience itaat
94 Obey
95 Objective
(noun)
96 Omission,
act(s) or tactic(s) of
97 Opponents karşıtlar/ muhalifler
98 Opposition groups karşıt gruplar /muhalif gruplar
99 Organizer örgütleyici
100 Parallel institution paralel kurumlar /paralel yapılar
101 People of support destek sütunları
102 Pillars of support
103 Plan
(noun)
104 Plan
(verb)
105 Political defiance politik karşı çıkış
106 Political ju-jitsu politik ju-jitsu
107 Political noncooperation politik olarak işbirliği yapmama
108 Political power politik güç
109 People power halk gücü
110 Power
111 Power holder
112 Planning planlama
113 Pragmatic nonviolence pragmatik
114 Protest
(Noun)
protesto
115 Protest
(verb)
116 Rally
(noun)
117 Resistance movement direniş hareketi
118 Repress
119 Repression baskı
120 Resilience dayanıklılık / esneklik
121 Revolution
(social, political, or economic)
122 Sanctions yaptırım
123 Self-determination
124 Self-organize
125 Self-organization öz örgütlenme
126 Self-reliance özgüven
127 Skills
(in civil resistance context)
beceri
128 Sources of power güç kaynakları
129 Strategic nonviolent struggle stratejik şiddetsiz mücadele
130 Semi-authoritarian rule
131 Self-rule kendi kendini yönetme
132 Sit-in oturma eylemi
133 Student Strikes öğrenci grevleri
134 Strategic plan stratejik planlama
135 Strategize
136 Strategy strateji
137 Strike
(noun)
grev
138 Strike
(associated with civil resistance)
(verb)
139 Structural conditions
(see also conditions)
yapısal koşullar
140 Success başarı
141 Tactic taktik
142 Tactical innovation
143 Tactics of commission icrai eylem taktikleri
(birşey yapmaya ilişkin taktikler)
144 Tactics of concentration
(see also Concenration, tactics of)
Toplu eylem taktikleri
145 Tactics of dispersion
(see also Dispersion, tactics of)
dağınık eylem yapma taktikleri
146 Tactics of omission ihmali eylem taktikleri
(birşey yapmamaya ilişkin taktikler)
147 Tactical sequencing taktikler dizisi
148 Third party
(or “third-party”)
149 Train
150 Training antrenman
151 Unarmed Insurrection silahsız başkaldırı /ayaklanma
152 Unite
153 Unity birlik
154 Uprising isyan / ayaklanma
155 Violence şiddet
156 Violent Flank şiddet kanadı/ şiddet kullanan kanat
157 Vision
(of a civil resistance movement)
vizyon
158 Walk-out
(or “walkout”)
(noun)
işi bırakma
159 Walk-out
(verb)

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