“…One of the most important events that marked the last 10 years of the Turkish geography undoubtedly is starting to question the traditional and dominant paradigm of the discipline thanks to both the impact of the globalization process and in particular the impact of some young "innovative geographers" within the discipline. Especially since 2005, the theoretical and empirical studies carried out by the innovative geographers who were not satisfied with the existing traditional geographical approach, training and practice in Turkey have demonstrated the silence of Turkish geography at national level and its disconnection from international geographic theory, method and agenda from a critical perspective (Arı, 2005(Arı, , 2017Arı and Köse, 2005;Kaya, 2005Kaya, , 2008Kaya, , 2010Yavan, 2005aYavan, , 2005bYavan, , 2007Yavan, , 2012Yavan, , 2014Tuysuz and Yavan, 2012;Yavan, 2013, 2018;Özgür and Yavan, 2013;Bilgili, 2016;Özgen, 2016;Bekaroğlu and Sarış, 2017;Özgür, 2018;Yavan and Kurtar Anlı, 2018). These studies have discussed the differences between Turkey and the Western geography and criticized the current situation by emphasizing that the internationalization of the discipline is one of the most important issue.…”