https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12619/2891 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:07:06 GMT 2026-04-14T22:07:06Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12619/98245 Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Conflict: Analysis of Turkey’s Policy Sadri Alibabalu, Sayyad This study reviews the relationship between geopolitics and geo-economics of the Eastern Mediterranean gas resources and Turkey’s perspective on it. The dispute over the region’s resources has entered a dangerous phase in 2019, and the coastal countries are trying to discover new gas resources in areas that overlap with other countries’ marine basins. This has caused a new conflict in the region at two levels. The first level is the dispute between Turkey and Greece over the Cyprus issue, which has also been drawn to this issue. The second one is the fierce geopolitical rivalry between Turkey and other coastal actors such as Egypt and Israel. For showing its decisiveness, Turkey signed a maritime border agreement with Libya in 2019 to neutralize its rivals on the gas issue. In this context, it may be asked, what does motivate the Turkish authorities in their strict policies towards the Eastern Mediterranean? According to the findings, Turkey is trying to take legal-political and military steps to faze the unity of rivals, and this has enabled the Turkish authorities to project and adapt their power in order to enhance their role and presence in the region. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12619/98245 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12619/2897 THE IRAQI IDENTITY: FAISAL'S UNSOLVED LEGACY Can, Serra The problem of creating a sustainable national identity has been one of the major conflict sources, which Iraq has suffered from its early days onwards. This study examines the rationalistic roots of Iraq's identity problem, and how King Faisal's era (1921-1933), which encompassed the British mandate period, both contributed to this problem and tried to evade it. The aim of this study is to gain a basic understanding of Iraq's identity problem, which has been set in motion under King Faisal I, whose legacy is yet to be solved regarding the Iraqi peoples' feeling of belonging. Starting off with the problematique of a national identity framework in Iraq's case, this study elaborates on problems of defining the Iraqi identity, and sheds light on the major sources of which it is fed off; pan-Arab nationalism, tribalism, religion and language. The central argument of this study is that identity is a major indicator for power politics including other aspects of society. Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12619/2897 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12619/2896 The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean Baykal, Zana Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12619/2896 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12619/2894 Inter-societal security trilemma in Turkey: understanding the failure of the 2009 Kurdish Opening Kardaş, Tuncay; Balcı, Ali This article examines the inter-societal security trilemma among political Islamists, Kurdish actors, and the state in Turkey with a special reference to the failures in the Kurdish Opening that was initiated in 2009. While the Kurdish question is undoubtedly a long-standing multi-state and multi-causal ethno-political phenomenon, this study is primarily concerned with the identity-security-politics nexus. It addresses the question of how the politics of identity and dynamics of contra-identity claims produce a persistent security dilemma among different political blocs in contemporary Turkey. Addressing this question helps to explain why the Turkish state has consistently failed to successfully tackle the Kurdish question, as was the case of the Kurdish Opening in 2009. Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12619/2894 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z