Turkey’s Transformation

Keyman, E. Fuat; Gümüşçü, Şebnem

doi:10.1057/9781137277121_2

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“…A tectonic shift in the region occurred when the US occupied Afghanistan in 2001. The new AKP government in Ankara tried to follow a proactive and multidimensional foreign policy and encouraged policy inputs from members of the Turkish civil society, think tanks and economic actors in its first years in power (Keyman & Gümüşçü, 2014, p. 73). Ankara coordinated its foreign policy with the United States, pursuing EU membership, and implementing a liberal-democratic political agenda at home.…”

Section: Turkey’s South Asia Approach After the Cold Warmentioning

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The Evolution of Turkey’s ‘South Asia Policy’: Continuities and Ruptures in Outlook, Roles, Actors and Constraints

Aslan

2022

Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

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Turkey’s South Asia policy remains an underexplored area of research in Turkish foreign policy literature despite a rich history of Turkish activism in the region. While bringing to surface Turkey’s perception of South Asia, this article utilises insights from foreign policy analysis literature to make sense of international and domestic drivers behind Turkey’s South Asia policies during and after the Cold War. Using primary resources drawn from Turkish, American, Indian and Australian archives, memoirs by retired Turkish generals and diplomats, and interviews the author conducted with retired Turkish diplomats serving previously as ambassadors to New Delhi and Islamabad, the article argues that Turkey has felt most motivated to be involved in the region when encouraged by and had the ability to coordinate its policies with its western partners. I highlight Turkey’s mediation missions in inter- and intra-state disputes in the region, attempts to shift its South Asia policy and discuss Turkey’s approach to various hot conflicts within and between states in the region. I finally provide the place of South Asia in Turkey’s recent ‘Asia Anew Initiative’ and seek to explain an actor-based evolution of Turkey’s South Asia policy under the AKP governments over the last two decades.

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Section: Turkey’s South Asia Approach After the Cold Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution of Turkey’s ‘South Asia Policy’: Continuities and Ruptures in Outlook, Roles, Actors and Constraints

Aslan

2022

Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs

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“…In this period, the regulations that were imposed by the IMF for this restructuring were implemented at a greater pace than during the 1990s (Onis and Senses, 2009). The neoliberal policies were enacted by means of expansion in Turkish export markets, foreign investment and privatization (Keyman and Gumuscu, 2014), as well as the foundation of independent regulatory agencies (Marois, 2018). The programme aimed to privatize public assets to generate income (Balaban, 2013).…”

Section: The Neoliberal State As a Regulating And Restructuring Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The revenue from privatization started to increase starkly after 2004 (Bugra and Savaskan, 2014). Within the 10 years following 2002, 34 billion US dollars-worth of privatization were realized (Keyman and Gumuscu, 2014).…”

Section: The Neoliberal State As a Regulating And Restructuring Agencymentioning

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The role of the state in the commodification of urban space: The case of branded housing projects, Istanbul

Serin

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McWilliams

2020

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Globally, cities have been experiencing neoliberal urbanization processes since the 1970s, while also contributing to the production of the neoliberal condition per se. The neoliberal state plays a core role in such processes, which have deepened the commodification of urban space via various mechanisms such as the privatization of public land and key urban infrastructure. This article critically investigates the direct involvement of the neoliberal state in the commodification of urban space by focusing on its triple role as a restructuring mechanism, a land developer and a volume housing developer in Turkey. The research develops and applies a theoretical framework based on Lefebvre’s production of space and Gramsci’s theory of hegemony. The paper examines the development of branded housing projects, which are private neighbourhoods, by analysing national legislative and organizational changes leading to the production of this type of development and illustrates this using four example projects in Istanbul. The paper contributes to the international evidence of the variegated characteristics of the neoliberal state in relation to urban development, and the neoliberal state’s role in the accumulation of capital in contemporary capitalism.

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“…The analysis of identity contestation and foreign policy presented here derives from an in-depth case study of Turkey, whose national identity has long been hotly contested in scholarship as well as in practice (most recently, see Ahmad, 2014; Kedourie, 2013; White, 2013; Keyman and Gümüşçü, 2014). While empirically rich, such discussions generally lack clear delineation of what Turkish identity actually consists of (i.e.…”

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“Take it outside!” National identity contestation in the foreign policy arena

Hintz

2015

European Journal of International Relations

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Turkey’s Islamist-rooted Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party) aggressively pursued European Union accession as a primary pillar of foreign policy, only to swing sharply away from the West in subsequent years. Actor- and party-based Islamist identity approaches cannot account for Turkey’s initial European Union-centric orientation, while domestic politics and economic arguments fail to explain the timing of the shift eastward and its domestic repercussions. Examining the advantages that foreign policy offers as an alternative arena in which elites can politicize identity debates helps to distill this complexity. This article argues that elites choose to take their national identity contests to the foreign policy arena when identity gambits at the domestic level are blocked. By taking its pursuit of hegemony for Ottoman Islamism “outside” through aggressive European Union accession measures, the Justice and Development Party could weaken domestic challengers supporting a competing, Republican Nationalist proposal for identity, and broaden support for Ottoman Islamism at home. The theory of identity hegemony developed here thus explains the counter-intuitive finding that Turkey’s European Union-oriented policy helped make possible the rise of Ottoman Islamism. Turkey offers an ideal empirical window onto these dynamics because of recent and dramatic shifts in the dynamics of its public identity debates, and because Turkey’s identity is implicated in multiple international roles, such as North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally, European Union candidate country, Organization of Islamic Cooperation member, and aspirant regional power broker. The framework developed fills a gap in existing scholarship by closing the identity–foreign policy circle, analytically linking the spillover of national identity debates into foreign policy with the changes in the contours of these debates produced by their contestation in this alternative arena.

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Turkey’s Transformation

Cited by 6 publications

References 6 publications

The Evolution of Turkey’s ‘South Asia Policy’: Continuities and Ruptures in Outlook, Roles, Actors and Constraints

The Evolution of Turkey’s ‘South Asia Policy’: Continuities and Ruptures in Outlook, Roles, Actors and Constraints

The role of the state in the commodification of urban space: The case of branded housing projects, Istanbul

“Take it outside!” National identity contestation in the foreign policy arena

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