Post-Truth and Strategic Ignorance Through the Story of Turkish Red Crescent (Kizilay)

Deniz Dirik (), Erhan Aydın and İnan Eryılmaz ()
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Deniz Dirik: Manisa Celal Bayar University
Erhan Aydın: Liverpool John Moores University
İnan Eryılmaz: Suleyman Demirel University

A chapter in Emerging Dynamics in Business and Economics, 2025, pp 45-71 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This study focuses on the Turkish Red Crescent (Kizilay), Turkey’s largest emergency response organization, to explore how post-truth narratives drive organizational transformation. By examining Kizilay’s evolution amid neoliberal deregulation, we attempt to demonstrate how strategic ignorance and manipulated truths affect organizational legitimacy and restructuring. We approach post-truth from the standpoint of strategic ignorance to assess the harm done to a crucial emergency response organization following a societal crisis. We highlight the key legitimating discourses employed by Kizilay, which ultimately fail to secure the intended public acceptance and legitimacy. The sequence of events ending with the resignation of Kizilay’s then president underscores the disconnect between the organization’s strategic communications and public perception. We contend that studying post-truth without denigrating its creators and consumers offers significant benefits, including the formulation of evidence-based social policies and an improved ability to recognize and address strategic ignorance.

Keywords: Post-truth; Strategic ignorance; Legitimacy; Decline of the social commons; Neoliberalization; Kizilay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-91686-1_3

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