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Foreign Policy as a Contested Front of the Cultural Wars in Turkey: The Middle East and Turkey in the Era of the AKP

Year 2020, Volume: 17 Issue: 65, 3 - 21, 01.03.2020

Doğan Gürpınar

https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.660644

Abstract

This article analyses the evolving discourses over Turkish foreign policy deeply entrenched within the Turkish cultural wars. It demonstrates the process and mechanisms that render Turkish foreign policy an extension of the pursuit of cultural politics and statements of identity. It also assesses how the Middle East was posited not only as a theater of diplomacy but also as a rhetorical gadget over contested Turkish identity, especially pushed by the AKP intelligentsia and policymakers and avidly defied by the secular opposition. Its emphasis is on the Arab Spring and Turkey’s immersion into the Syrian civil war, as these developments exacerbated the overlap between foreign policy making and discourses on foreign policy, particularly since the AKP sought not only diplomatic opportunities but also a regional transnational realignment as a result of the Arab Spring and the regional revolutionary milieu.

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Islamism Populism Arap Spring Middle East Syrian Civil War

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Türkiye’de Çatışmalı Bir Kültür Savaşı Cephesi Olarak Dış Politika: AK Parti İktidarında Orta Doğu ve Türkiye

Year 2020, Volume: 17 Issue: 65, 3 - 21, 01.03.2020

Doğan Gürpınar

https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.660644

Abstract

Bu makale Türkiye’de dış politikaya dair dönüşen ve yaşanan kültürel savaşla iç içe geçmiş söylemleri analiz etmektedir. Aynı zamanda, Türk dış politika yapımının iç siyasetin ve kimlik tavırlarının uzantısına dönüşme sürecini ve mekanizmalarını çözümlemektedir. Özellikle AKP entelijansiyasının ve karar alıcılarının iddialarının ve seküler muhalefetin bunlara karşıtlığının gösterdiği üzere Orta Doğu bir diplomasi sahası olmaktan öte Türk kimliği üzerine bir söylemsel araç olarak algılandı. Makale, bu süreçlerin AKP’ye diplomatik imkanlar sunmaları ve bölgesel bir ulusötesi ittifak için fırsat sağlamalarından dolayı Arap baharına ve Türkiye’nin içine çekildiği Suriye iç savaşına yoğunlaşacaktır.

Keywords

İslamcılık Popülizm Arap Baharı Orta Doğu Suriye İç Savaşı

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Primary Language English
Journal Section Research Article
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Doğan Gürpınar This is me

Publication Date March 1, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 17 Issue: 65

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APA Gürpınar, D. (2020). Foreign Policy as a Contested Front of the Cultural Wars in Turkey: The Middle East and Turkey in the Era of the AKP. Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi, 17(65), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.660644
AMA Gürpınar D. Foreign Policy as a Contested Front of the Cultural Wars in Turkey: The Middle East and Turkey in the Era of the AKP. uidergisi. March 2020;17(65):3-21. doi:10.33458/uidergisi.660644
Chicago Gürpınar, Doğan. “Foreign Policy As a Contested Front of the Cultural Wars in Turkey: The Middle East and Turkey in the Era of the AKP”. Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi 17, no. 65 (March 2020): 3-21. https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.660644.
EndNote Gürpınar D (March 1, 2020) Foreign Policy as a Contested Front of the Cultural Wars in Turkey: The Middle East and Turkey in the Era of the AKP. Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi 17 65 3–21.
IEEE D. Gürpınar, “Foreign Policy as a Contested Front of the Cultural Wars in Turkey: The Middle East and Turkey in the Era of the AKP”, uidergisi, vol. 17, no. 65, pp. 3–21, 2020, doi: 10.33458/uidergisi.660644.
ISNAD Gürpınar, Doğan. “Foreign Policy As a Contested Front of the Cultural Wars in Turkey: The Middle East and Turkey in the Era of the AKP”. Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi 17/65 (March 2020), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.660644.
JAMA Gürpınar D. Foreign Policy as a Contested Front of the Cultural Wars in Turkey: The Middle East and Turkey in the Era of the AKP. uidergisi. 2020;17:3–21.
MLA Gürpınar, Doğan. “Foreign Policy As a Contested Front of the Cultural Wars in Turkey: The Middle East and Turkey in the Era of the AKP”. Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi, vol. 17, no. 65, 2020, pp. 3-21, doi:10.33458/uidergisi.660644.
Vancouver Gürpınar D. Foreign Policy as a Contested Front of the Cultural Wars in Turkey: The Middle East and Turkey in the Era of the AKP. uidergisi. 2020;17(65):3-21.
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