@article{article_1673628, title={Eastern Mediterranean and Limits of Disaster Diplomacy in Greek Turkish Relations}, journal={Journal of Turkology}, volume={35}, pages={240–258}, year={2025}, DOI={10.26650/iuturkiyat.1673628}, author={Mert Uzuner, Zuhal}, keywords={Afet Diplomasisi, Sismik Diplomasi, Türk Yunan İlişkileri, Doğu Akdeniz, Medya}, abstract={Disaster diplomacy has emerged as a critical motivator for governments seeking to establish a positive agenda in the aftermath of crises. It compels us to ask how political preferences can shift after such disasters. As a case study, Greek-Turkish relations in the Eastern Mediterranean are evaluated in this study to understand the probable impacts of disaster diplomacy. After a year of high tension in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Greek and Turkish navies came to the edge of a hot conflict. On the 6th of February, 2023 an earthquake in south-eastern Türkiye created a humanitarian tragedy, and Greece’s solidarity with the Turkish people after the earthquakes, before any other disagreements in the Eastern Mediterranean, raised a question about the probability of another rapprochement between Greece and Türkiye as it happened after the 1999 earthquakes. This study aims to answer the following question: What are disaster diplomacy’s limits and prospects for overcoming expanding and multi-layered problems in the Eastern Mediterranean? The influence of leaders and the media on shaping public opinion and its relationship with changes in foreign policy priorities were examined in two separate cases from 1999 and 2023.}, number={1}, publisher={İstanbul Üniversitesi}