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Governmental System Discussions Ahead of the 2023 Elections Why the

Governmental System Discussions Ahead of the 2023 Elections: Why the Nation Alliance’s Proposal for Semi-Presidentialism is not a Viable Option

Articles

Ahead of the 2023 elections, one of the top items on Türkiye’s political agenda will relate to the different systems of government that various...

Imperial Resilience The Great War s End Ottoman Longevity and

Imperial Resilience: The Great War’s End, Ottoman Longevity, and Incidental Nations

Book Reviews

One of the ultimate matters the book makes the reader reconsider is that one cannot think of the Anatolian independence struggle independently of...

EU-Turkey Relations A New Direction for EU Foreign Policy

EU-Turkey Relations: A New Direction for EU Foreign Policy?

Book Reviews

This book, which analyzes the EU’s foreign policy between the years 2014-2019 and its relations with Türkiye, contains positive aspects as well as...

Insights into Türkiye s Technology Development Journey

Insights into Türkiye’s Technology Development Journey

Commentaries

Türkiye, an emerging economy, has been attempting to improve its socioeconomic strength through the promotion of research and development (R&D),...

Strategic Communication and Policies of Türkiye

Strategic Communication and Policies of Türkiye

Commentaries

Since the establishment of the Republic, Türkiye has systematically conducted communication activities to proclaim its own theses to the national...

Truth Is a Human Right Türkiye s Stance on the

Truth Is a Human Right: Türkiye’s Stance on the Fight against Disinformation

Commentaries

We are experiencing the rise of unprecedented opportunities as a result of the digital revolution, but regrettably this has also been accompanied...

Turkey between the United States and Russia Surfing on the

Turkey between the United States and Russia: Surfing on the Edge

Book Reviews

Turkey between the United States and Russia distinguishes itself from other studies in the literature by simultaneously considering tripartite...

EU Turkey and Counter-Terrorism Fighting the PKK and ISIS

EU, Turkey, and Counter-Terrorism: Fighting the PKK and ISIS

Book Reviews

The EU-Türkiye related literature mostly concentrates on the EU’s expansion, its conditionality on Türkiye’s democratization, and the strategic...

Turkey and the EU in an Energy Security Society The

Turkey and the EU in an Energy Security Society: The Case of Natural Gas

Book Reviews

The book provides major contributions to the literature, including theoretical and empirical. In the literature geopolitics, economics, and...

Turkish-Russian Relations Prospects and Challenges

Turkish-Russian Relations: Prospects and Challenges

Book Reviews

Although the book promises an exciting contribution to the literature on Turkish-Russian relations, it remains inadequate in fulfilling its aims...

The Proliferation of Combat Drones in Civil and Interstate Conflicts

The Proliferation of Combat Drones in Civil and Interstate Conflicts: The Case of Türkiye and Azerbaijan

Articles

Recent developments in conflict zones show the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or combat drones and how they transform and shape...

The Metaverse Diplomacy A Future Vision for Türkiye

The Metaverse Diplomacy: A Future Vision for Türkiye

Articles

One of the critical questions for the future of the Metaverse is whether it will be global and singular –or multiple, company or country based....

The Relationship between Cultural Power and Education in Light of

The Relationship between Cultural Power and Education in Light of the Development of Education in Türkiye over the Last Two Decades

Commentaries

Over the last 20 years, Türkiye’s education system has undergone a period of transformation. The process of universalization from primary to higher...

Türkiye s Climate Policy Aligned with International Climate Politics

Türkiye’s Climate Policy: Aligned with International Climate Politics

Articles

The aim of this article is to assess Türkiye’s national climate policy framework within the context of international climate change negotiations....

Türkiye s Water Security Policy Energy Agriculture and Transboundary Issues

Türkiye’s Water Security Policy: Energy, Agriculture, and Transboundary Issues

Articles

Water security refers to the availability of adequate quantities and qualities of water for societal needs and resilient ecosystems in the context...

Turkish History and Culture in India Identity Art and Transregional

Turkish History and Culture in India: Identity, Art, and Transregional Connections

Book Reviews

Turkish History and Culture in India can be understood as having erred on the side of global history, rather than choosing a very definite range of...

The Road Before Me Weeps On the Refugee Road through

The Road Before Me Weeps: On the Refugee Road through Europe

Book Reviews

Perhaps the most important shortcoming of the book is its lack of a theoretical framework. Thorpe conducted his fieldwork with great effort,...

The Turkey-UK Free Trade Agreement in Terms of Economic Diplomacy

The Turkey-UK Free Trade Agreement in Terms of Economic Diplomacy

Articles

This article scrutinizes relations between economic diplomacy and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) by focusing on the Turkey-UK free trade agreements...

Turkey s Strategic Conduct under the Changing International System

Turkey’s Strategic Conduct under the Changing International System

Articles

This article analyzes how Turkey should adjust its grand strategy under the changing international order. It claims that the international order...

Turkey s Grand Strategy and the Great Powers

Turkey’s Grand Strategy and the Great Powers

Articles

How compatible is Turkey’s grand strategy with the grand strategies of global great powers? This article briefly summarizes principles of Turkish...

The Evolutionary Feature of Turkey s Soft Power in the

The Evolutionary Feature of Turkey’s Soft Power in the Middle East, 2011-2020

Commentaries

Today, soft power plays an important role in advancing states’ foreign policy goals. As one of the world’s emerging economic powers, Turkey pays...

Editor's Note Fall 2021

Editor's Note | Fall 2021

Editor's Notes

With one more year coming to an end, we are pleased to present to our readers yet another insightful issue of Insight Turkey that has attempted to...

A Panoramic View of the UK Relations with the EU

A Panoramic View of the UK Relations with the EU and Turkey Post-Brexit

Commentaries

In the last century, the importance of foreign trade, particularly net exports of goods and services, in achieving balanced and high-quality...

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