Insight Turkey
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Opportunities and Anxieties of Homecoming The Role of Education in

Opportunities and Anxieties of Homecoming: The Role of Education in Syrian Refugees’ Return Decisions

Articles

After over a decade of conflict and displacement in Syria, renewed discussions on post-war return have highlighted the conditions under which...

The Geopolitics of Connectivity and the Development Road Project

The Geopolitics of Connectivity and the Development Road Project

Commentaries

This article explores the growing significance of connectivity in contemporary geopolitics, using the Development Road Project led by Türkiye and...

The Türkiye Model An Original Paradigm for Resolving Conflicts Involving

The ‘Türkiye Model:’ An Original Paradigm for Resolving Conflicts Involving Armed Non-State Actors

Articles

This article examines the dissolution of terrorist organizations in a comparative perspective through the examples of the IRA, ETA, LTTE, FARC, and...

Editor's Note Fall 2025

Editor's Note | Fall 2025

Editor's Note

Taken together, the contributions in this issue situate the idea of a “Terror-Free Türkiye” within a broader intellectual and geopolitical context,...

A Türkiye-Specific Model for Ending Terrorism Terror-Free Türkiye

A Türkiye-Specific Model for Ending Terrorism: “Terror-Free Türkiye”

Commentaries

This commentary explains the basis on which the Turkish authorities launched a new political initiative, called Terror-Free Türkiye, which aims...

Understanding the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey Perspective from Actors

Understanding the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey: Perspective from Actors

Book Reviews

The book Understanding the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey: Perspective from Actors by Emrah Atar, a scholar with expertise in migration and urban...

Türkiye s World and International Law Convergence with the Rest

Türkiye’s World and International Law: Convergence with the Rest

Articles

Celal Nuri (1882-1936) asserts that “international law is defective.” Through Celal Nuri’s critique of international law in the early 1900’s, I...

Technological Extensions of the Offense-Defense Balance Turkish Navy in the

Technological Extensions of the Offense-Defense Balance: Turkish Navy in the Eastern Mediterranean

Articles

The Eastern Mediterranean is one of the important points in the international arena where maritime competition is deepening. Although strategic...

The UN System and Türkiye on Its 80th Anniversary Quest

The UN System and Türkiye on Its 80th Anniversary: Quest for Peace through Multilateralism

Commentaries

Since 1945, the United Nations (UN) has played a central role in shaping the global order through its laws, norms, and institutions. As a founding...

Editor's Note Fall 2024

Editor's Note | Fall 2024

Editor's Note

This issue of Insight Turkey seeks to address many of these topics, offering in-depth analyses to enhance our understanding not only of Turkish...

The Republican People s Party s Approach to the Kurdish

The Republican People’s Party’s Approach to the Kurdish Question: A Comparison of Deniz Baykal and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu Periods

Articles

This study focuses on the Kurdish question that has occupied the political and social agenda of Türkiye for a long time. It also closely examines...

Editor's Note Summer 2024

Editor's Note | Summer 2024

Editor's Note

The current edition of Insight Turkey undertakes a comprehensive examination of Türkiye’s Africa policy, encompassing bilateral, regional,...

The Ukraine War Impacts on the International System and Türkiye

The Ukraine War: Impacts on the International System and Türkiye

Articles

This article argues that the Ukraine war is the first major conflict since the end of the Cold War to bring the two major nuclear powers, the U.S....

Toward Building a Deeper Relationship between Türkiye and Japan for

Toward Building a Deeper Relationship between Türkiye and Japan for the Next 100 Years

Articles

The year 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Türkiye and Japan. The Republic of...

Asia Anew Initiative Main Aspects of Türkiye s Asia Opening

Asia Anew Initiative: Main Aspects of Türkiye’s Asia Opening

Commentaries

The center of gravity in the world has shifted from the Atlantic to Asia over the last decade. The Asian continent has emerged as the geopolitical...

The Paradoxical Role of Mediators in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Prospects

The Paradoxical Role of Mediators in the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: Prospects and Concerns

Articles

This paper explores the underlying factors that pushed Russia, the European Union (EU), Türkiye, and somehow the U.S. to offer mediation to settle...

Shaping Eurasia s Future The Evolving Role and Impact of

Shaping Eurasia’s Future: The Evolving Role and Impact of the Organization of Turkic States

Commentaries

This commentary provides a comprehensive analysis of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS), tracing its evolution from the dissolution of the...

Uzbek-Turkish Strategic Partnership in the Context of Geopolitical Turbulence in

Uzbek-Turkish Strategic Partnership in the Context of Geopolitical Turbulence in Central Asia

Commentaries

Central Asia has long captured the attention of global and regional powers due to its abundant natural resources, strategic location, potential for...

Kazakhstan s Strategic Priorities in the Turkic World

Kazakhstan’s Strategic Priorities in the Turkic World

Commentaries

With its unwavering focus on institutionalizing cooperation within the Turkic World, Kazakhstan has successfully achieved to improve institutional...

Turkey-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century Cooperation and Competition amid

Turkey-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century: Cooperation and Competition amid Systemic Turbulence

Book Reviews

The book is an important reference for any researcher looking into the relations between Türkiye and Russia, and also to understand both countries’...

Turkish Foreign Policy in the Centennial Republican Anniversary Quo Vadis

Turkish Foreign Policy in the Centennial Republican Anniversary: Quo Vadis?

Review Article

This review article is based on three books: Starting with Alaranta, a senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in...

Turkish Foreign Policy at the Turn of the 'Century of

Turkish Foreign Policy at the Turn of the 'Century of Türkiye': Challenges, Vision, Objectives, and Transformation

Commentaries

Türkiye is embarking on the ‘Century of Türkiye’ at a time of rapidly changing geopolitical dynamics coupled with ever-increasing global...

The Cyprus Conflict A Case for Joint Decision Trap

The Cyprus Conflict: A Case for ‘Joint Decision Trap’

Articles

This paper is about the current stage of the Cyprus conflict in the context of the recent developments in the Eastern Mediterranean. The energy...

A Founding Role in Türkiye s Africa Policy The Action

A Founding Role in Türkiye’s Africa Policy: The Action Plan for Opening to Africa

Articles

In direct proportion to the development of Türkiye’s relations with Africa, the number of studies on bilateral relations is also increasing....

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