ETCHICAL RULES
For Authors
To be accepted to the Journal, articles should be unique, convenient to scientific studies and methodologies, and should contribute to current applications and theories. Articles must be written in English The articles should not be published or sent to be published to any domestic or foreign party before. It is not under the Journal’s responsibility to search this issue. Its ethical responsibility is the author’s. The submission of the article is considered to be the commitment of the author in this respect.
The submitted articles that were presented in scientific meetings such as congress, symposium, seminar etc. can be accepted if they have not been published in the related proceedings document and this must be explicitly stated by the article author(s).
If any search, data collection, analysis, research result etc. within the context of the submitted article were used in any published study, it must be stated in both the article and its reference part.
In the event of having more than one author in the article, all authors undertake having equal responsibility and contributing equally to whole process of the article including planning, research, preparing, organizing, drafting, writing and submitting the last version of the article. If the participation rate differs, the authors must submit participation rate declaration.
The submitted articles cannot include fabricated (untrue) information in research, data collection, analysis, research results etc. issues.
The authors must show in their articles that they have not only referred to the sources supporting the idea/result of the article but also the ones supporting the opposing opinions in both the article and reference.
The name, place and date of the meeting must be stated in congress or symposium papers.
The articles sent to the journal are regularly examined against plagiarism. The application named iThenticate is used to prevent plagiarism.
If the submitted article includes any research applied on humans/animals or any personal information to be shared, the author of the article must submit the proper permission documents taken from an authorized Research Ethics Committee. Such articles will not be accepted without a proper permission document. The situations that necessitate Research Ethics Committee approval are as follows: The researches that are carried out with qualitative and quantitative approaches necessitating data gathering by using questionnaire, focus group work, observation, experiment, interview technics; using of humans or animals for experimental or another scientific purposes; clinical researches on humans or animals. Consent form must be submitted in case reports. A permission document signed by the participants whose scale, questionnaire, photos are put in the study must be submitted to the Journal. It is obligatory to abide by the copyright issues.
In the event of finding that a study doesn’t comply with academic and ethical principles, the process is stopped and the study is rejected.
The authors must certainly state “This study was prepared in compliance with the scientific search and publication ethics. There is no content necessitating any permission from Ethical Board or any legal/special permission in this study. We/I, as the author(s) of the article, signed our/my declaration certifying that there was no conflict of interest in our/my article.” in the abstract.
Linking any particular religion, nationality, race or ethnicity to terrorism or extremism only serves to:
*Aid terrorist organizations in the radicalization of individuals stigmatized by these designations,
* Potentially anger communities so labelled, and
* Alienate NATO allies and partners.
* The chapter will refer to terrorist and extremist groups using their self-declared titles in the course. When referring to broader ideology the following categories are suggested:
* Religiously Motivated Terrorism,
* Ethno-Nationalism,
* Left-Wing Terrorism, or
* Right-Wing Terrorism.
* Terms such as “Islamist threat”, “Islamist terrorism”, “Islamist extremists”, “radical Islam(ist)”, “white-supremacist”, “Western Islamophobia” are not included in the course.
For Referees
The referees are the fundamental elements to determine whether the submitted article is scientifically, grammatically, ethically and academically suitable to be published.
The referees must accept only the articles that they are qualified of evaluating according to their academic expertise.
The referees must abide by the rules of double-blind referee system and respect the confidentiality of the process and act accordingly.
The referees can’t share any information in the article with the other parties.
The referees must abide by the principles of impartiality. They must evaluate the article in terms of scientific measures, its contribution to the field, the correctness of its content, its academic and grammatical suitability.
The referees must strongly abstain from using any kind of offensive, humiliating or accusatory statements in their reports.
The referees must use clear and detailed statements about the article. For the article they don’t approve to be published, they must give concrete reasons explaining the missing or faulty points.
The referees must evaluate the authors’ loyalty to the objectivity principles. The referees must feel content that the author does not only refer to the sources that support the argument in the article but also refer to the ones that support the other opinions as well.
The referees must evaluate the article within 10 days. They must inform the Editorial Board as soon as possible if they can’t evaluate. 10. When the referees realize/suspect that there is a conflict of interest in the study, they must inform the editorial board and if necessary reject the article.
For Editors
The editors must accept the articles that will contribute to the field in compliance with the search and ethical rules and text formatting of the Journal.
The editors mustn’t be in any conflict of interest with the accepted/rejected articles.
The editors have the whole responsibility and authority to accept/reject the article.
The Publication Committee, Responsible Editor and Editorial Secretariat are obliged to keep all studies confidential until they are published. They can’t give any details to anyone except the authors.
It is the editor’s responsibility to keep any information of the referees and the authors mutually confidential in compliance with double-blind referee system.
The editors must check the article in terms of plagiarism before the evaluation process and take necessary measures to prevent plagiarism.
It is the editors responsibility to fulfill plagiarism scanning, preevaluation, referee process, editing and publishing process in time and flawlessly.
The editors must comply with the research and ethical rules and academic standards when accepting or rejecting the articles.