İİBF - Makale Koleksiyonu | Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü / Department of International Relations
Recent Submissions
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Can the Kurdish left contribute to Turkey’s democratization?
(SETA, 2014-03-01)The current peace process regarding Turkey’s Kurdish question could pave the way for the normalization of politics and democratization in Turkey if the existing opportunities are not missed. The major actors that represent ... -
Can money make us friends?: Islamist entrepreneurs and chances for democratization in the muslim world
(2010-04-16)Islamist movements have grown persistently in the last few decades and became major actors in the politics of various Muslim nations, receiving attention in numerous popular studies. Many of those studies, however, focus ... -
Turkey's radical right and the Kurdish issue: The MHP's reaction to the "democratic opening"
(2010)Turkey's current government's 'democratic opening' project has led to a series of political discussions regarding the cause and resolve of the Kurdish issue. One major consequence of this debate has been the polarization ... -
Citizenship and minorities: A historical overview of Turkey's Jewish minority
(Blackwell Publishing, 2005-12)Citizenship in Turkey is one of the major instruments of nation-building. The legal framework that Turkish citizenship rests on is universal and equal. The non-Muslim minorities - the Armenians, the Greeks and the Jews - ... -
Polish-Russian relations: History, geography and geopolitics
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The Davutoglu era in Turkish foreign policy
(2009)Ahmet Davutoglu was appointed Turkish foreign minister on May 1, 2009. Chief advisor to the Turkish prime minister since 2002, Davutoglu is known as the intellectual architect of Turkish foreign policy under the AK Party. ... -
The conduct of citizenship in the case of Turkey's Jewish minority: legal status, identity, and civic virtue aspects
(2006)Contemporary liberal democracies confront governance problems elicited by the discord between the principles of equality and difference, and between the concepts of majority and minority. Citizenship came to be recognized ... -
Turkish Popular Presidential Elections: Deepening Legitimacy Issues and Looming Regime Change
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2015-04-03)This paper examines the politics of presidential elections in Turkey with particular reference to the 10 August 2014 presidential elections. It starts by scrutinising the change in the presidential election system from ... -
Türkiye’nin Kuzey Irak politikasında değişim: Turgut Özal ve Tayyip Erdoğan dönemleri karşılaştırmalı analizi
(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2017)1960’lardan itibaren Türk politika yapıcıları Irak’taki Kürt hareketine karşı mesafeli bir tutum takınmış ve benzer olayların Türkiye’de de yaşanmasından kaygı duymuşlardır. Fakat, Türkiye, öncelikle 1990’ların başında, ... -
Erosion of Central Bank independence in Turkey
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019-01-01)This study provides empirical analysis to show increasing pressures over the Central Bank of Turkey (CBT) throughout the past decade where the CBT gives into such pressures, despite the Central Bank Law, which ensures tool ... -
Perspectives on Turkey’s 2017 Presidential Referendum
(Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs, 2017-03)Until the 1980s, Turkey’s long-standing parliamentarism had precluded debates about presidentialism. In the following decade, the two right-wing presidents, Ozal and Demirel, briefly promoted presidentialism but failed to ... -
How can Akşener's Iyi Parti contribute to Turkey's Democracy?
(Turkish Policy Quarterly, 2018-12-01)Since the founding of Meral Aksener's Iyi Parti (Good Party) in October 2017, expectations for Turkey's newest political bloc have been mounting, particularly that it can reverse Turkey's march towards an empowered ... -
Countering insurgency: Turkey's policy toward the PKK's transnational dynamics in Europe
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018-01-02)Insurgents often develop international connections and benefit from external assistance from a variety of sources. Support from diaspora communities has long been considered one of the critical external factors in the ... -
Religious solidarity, historical mission and moral superiority: construction of external and internal "others' in AKP's discourses on Syrian refugees in Turkey
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018-10-20)Turkey hosts the world's largest community of displaced Syrians. According to UNHCR, there are more than 3 million registered Syrians in Turkey as of 2018. Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Turkey's ... -
The moderation of Turkey's Kurdish left: the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018-10-20)Moderation theory, within the political party context, has often been applied to European Socialists and Christian Democrats, as well as Islamic revivalists in the Muslim world. This article applies moderation theory to ... -
Making Winners: Urban Transformation and Neoliberal Populism in Turkey
(Middle East Institute, 2018-12-01)This study focuses on the distribution of the costs and benefits of Turkey's urban policy. Since 2002, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has embraced an ambitious form of capitalism that privatized the ... -
The state of property development in Turkey: facts and comparisons
(Cambridge Univ Press, 2016-09-01)In this article, we investigate economic and political developments in Turkey's construction sector over the last decade and consider their implications. We find that during the first term of the government of the Justice ... -
Technology and politics: have the ICTs turned into a domain for civil-military relations in Turkey?
(Routledge Journals, 2016)The implications of technology have been widely acknowledged in international relations. Studies ranging from the causes of war and military effectiveness to terrorism and nuclear proliferation have explored how technology ... -
Turkey’s struggle with the PKK and civilian control over the Turkish Armed Forces
(Routledge, 2016-05-03)Although most scholars of Turkey’s civil-military relations argue that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) insurgency has led to a decrease in civilian control over the Turkish military from the 1980s onwards, this has not ... -
New directions for women's political development in Turkey: Exploring the implications of the internet for Ka-der
(IOS Press, 2014)Underrepresentation of women in Turkish politics is well documented. This is evident in the numbers of women in key decision-making positions, including the Parliament. The role of women's NGOs is significant in educating, ...
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