Reconsidering ‘EU Actorness’ in Changing Geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean Region

The discovery of hydrocarbon resources in the Eastern Mediterranean reshuffled the existing foreign policies, increased...

Monday, December 19, 2022

TİKA’s Heritage Restoration Projects: Examples of Foreign Aid or Proof of Neo-Ottomanism?

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Turkey has been using the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) to...

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Vaccine Diplomacy as a Form of Soft Power: The Successful Case of Türkiye

The coronavirus pandemic has been raging across the globe for more than two years, claiming over 6 million lives and...

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Editor's Note | Summer 2021

The summer issue of Insight Turkey aims to highlight the recent developments and challenges in the Middle East by taking...

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

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

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

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Reinventing Hybridity in a Globalized Context: The Case of Turkish Soap Operas and Their Reception in Morocco

This article aims to examine Turkish soap operas as a multi-faceted phenomenon that, as a product of cultural...

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

Nye discusses the challenges for a future, moral foreign policy and specifies two global power shifts that will shape the...

Monday, June 21, 2021

Turkey’s Energy Diversification Strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Since 2003, by instituting a multidimensional foreign policy, Turkey has aimed to reach new geographies and regions by...

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

TİKA’s Soft Power: Nation Branding in Turkish Foreign Policy

Over the past fifteen years, nation branding has become a popular subject of study, and a formative enterprise in the...

Wednesday, September 12, 2018