Avrasya Uluslararası Araştırmalar Dergisi

Abstract

An individual perceives as a threat when the environment changes that she/he is
accustomed. The perceived threat is reflected in „the other‟ because it cannot be caused by „us‟.
The global economic crisis in 2008 also affected Switzerland and this led to a decline in
perceived prosperity in everyday life. In the Swiss case, it was considered that various minority
rights violations, particularly in 2009, were due to the danger of the perceived level of prosperity
by Swiss citizens. The process of violating these minority rights has been tried to be interpreted
with the help of the concept of Political Psychology. In the study, it was stated that the
psychology of the victim created within the Muslim minority would be easily adopted by the
Muslim minority group and the gap between “us” and “the other” would increase. In terms of
public security policies, the existence of different groups within society affects the domestic
security policies of the states. As the gap between “us” and “the other” increases, aggressive
feelings will increase and will have a negative impact on the welfare of the country in terms of
public security. In addition, as a result of different groups perceiving each other as a threat, the
unrest in the society will increase. Political Psychology examines the selected trauma and
selected victories based on the psychology of groups and tries to analyze how the group
behaves in the face of any event. It expresses how concepts such as identity, politics, ethnicity,
gender, religion are interpreted by different groups. The aim of this study is to express the
political practices towards the minorities in Switzerland and to put forward the ways of these
practices evaluating as a threat to public freedom.