The article reviews the relevance of soft power for the case of Turkey, and assesses whether Turkey does have meaningful soft power potential. or...

Turkey has been traditionally viewed mostly as a hard power in the Middle East, due to its military and economic strength. In recent years,...

Soft power is based on attraction and the ability to persuade others to further one's goals. The key sources of soft power are said to derive from...

This article builds on the insights of critical approaches to the study of power and seeks to lay bare the poverty of power analysis in mainstream...

This article analyzes the identity dimension of EU-Turkey relations from the constructivist perspective in international relations theory. It...

Minorities have always been the subject of academic, journalistic and popular research in Turkey. The general trend of most of these analyses to...

This article aims to show how exchanges.between religion and secularism, Islam and democracy and cross-cultural relations over many years have...

The Prosecutor of the High Court of Appeals opened a closure case against the ruling AK Party by presenting it as the center of anti-secular...

As the AK Party government struggles to keep the ‘EU dream’ alive, and as Kemalist ideocrats work to keep back the AKP’s dominion, lingering...

The Kurdish question has been a source of domestic conflict since the inception of the Turkish Republic. It has been one of the mostly securitized...

In a sharp break from the past, Turkey’s AK Party government now openly accepts the existence of a domestic Kurdish problem, and views it moreover...

This article examines the challenges of Kurdish nationalism within Turkey and of Kurdish nationalist movements emanating from Iraq during the...

This article argues that Turkey's approach towards the Kurds of northern Iraq provides analysts with an opportunity to demonstrate that the...

This paper challenges the view that the AKP is an "Islamist Party" and "hardly a democratic opening." It puts forward the argument that the AKP's...

This article, based on a book published by SETA, looks at the attitudes of Turkish people towards what is conceived as the West and Western...

Conflicting dynamics and power calculation: within the Bush administration have given rise to contradictory signals coming from Washington...

This paper attempts to evaluate the forces behind the Turkish-Greek rapprochement, its prospects and its limitations. In the first part, through an...

Turkey’s foreign policy needs a new orientation in the light of the new regional and global developments. As a major country in the midst of the...

Despite its unique geographical and cultural position between East and the West, Turkey, throughout its modern history, has followed a...

This article seeks to analyze identity discourses in Turkey and Germany in the wake of the end of the bipolar world order. The radical changes...

This paper examines the impact of contested national identity on Turkish and Japanese foreign policies. Applying a modified constructivist...

Bi-ethnic Belgium has skillfully developed cooperation and concertation arrangements which meet even the EU's rigid “one voice" requirement, taking...

The paper analyzes Turkey’s democratization efforts between 2004 and 2008. In addition to the challenges that the EU accession process brings to...

This article investigates the perception and the reaction of Turkish people to Israel’s war in Gaza. For this purpose, we utilized a survey...