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- MakaleAçık Erişim2026Turkey's active neutrality strategy in the black sea region: practices and analysis
Ugur, Omer; Aksoy, Metin
Turkey's foreign policy strategies in the Black Sea region are of great importance in international relations due to its geographical location and geopolitical features. Active neutrality is an approach that envisions states contributing to regional stability through diplomacy and peacebuilding while avoiding taking sides in international conflicts. This article aims to analyze Turkey's Black Sea policies through the concept of “active neutrality” and examine the implementation of this strategy and its regional implications. This study examines Turkey's roles in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), the Montreux Straits Convention, and the Russia-Ukraine tensions through case studies. It also discusses elements such as the broader foreign policy context of active neutrality (relations with Iran) and the triggering role of NATO expansion. Consequently, the advantages and limitations of this strategy and Turkey's interactions with regional dynamics (the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict) are evaluated. The findings of the article show that Turkey's active neutrality offers opportunities in terms of security, international prestige, and economic interests, but faces challenges due to the influence of major powers, NATO expansion, and domestic political pressures.
- MakaleYalnız künye2024Assesment in the context of climate migration: hurricane katrina
Ugur, Omer; Aksoy, Metin; Efşan, Nur Çelik
Environmental problems, which have increased since the 1960s due to the impact of the Industrial Revolution, invite anthropogenic global warming. Dehydration, drought, deforestation, rising ocean and sea water levels due to the melting of glaciers, increased evaporation due to warming, and severe hurricanes resulting from the temperature- pressure difference resulting from the circulation of evaporated water masses in the atmosphere are among the disasters caused by global warming. While the devastations experienced after disasters resulting from global warming reach a level that a single country cannot combat, it creates a need for international cooperation. Thousand of people are displaced in the crisis environment that occurs after disasters, and this displacement brings environmental security threats. In the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the USA in 2005, which is the subject of the study, the impact area of the disaster was wide as a result of the Bush Government and FEMA’s failure to make pre-disaster preparations at an optimal level and the dams and breakwaters built during the preliminary preparation process for the possible disaster failed. It has been revealed through information obtained from the US press that the disaster was described as man-made. Qualitative research techniques were used in the study and a literature review was conducted.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2024STRATEGIC FLASHPOINTS: NATO’S CONTAINMENT OF RUSSIA IN THE BLACK SEA AND ARCTIC REGIONS; [Puncte fierbinți strategice: îngrădirea Rusiei de către NATO în zona Mării Negre și în regiunea arctică]
Aksoy, Metin; Limon, Onur; Limon, Elif Gürdal
This study examines the strategic significance of NATO’s containment policy in the Black Sea and Arctic regions and its impact on Russia’s geopolitical and military responses. These areas, once peripheral to play only a minor role in global security dynamics, have become critical flashpoints because of NATO enlargement and increasing Russian aggression. By applying George Kennan’s containment theory to NATO’s post-Cold War strategy, this study examines how NATO’s actions have contributed to the escalation of tensions in these regions. The analysis addresses the challenges and risks NATO faces in maintaining its containment approach and offers insights into the future relationship between NATO and Russia.
- MakaleYalnız künye2021Fundamentalist Movements in The Northern Region of The Caucasus:Chechnya And Dagestan At the End of the 20th Century and TheBeginning of the 21st Century
Aksoy, Metin; Karaağaçlı, Abbas
The Mujahedeen, who had received military training in Afghanistan and Pakistan against Soviets and fought against that force, steered to new objectives or they were directed to do so after the dissolution of the USSR. The Mujahedeen received training in accordance with the Salafist-Wahabi faith in general. They sometimes operate peacefully in an impolitic manner but they also operate politically and act as a member of an armed organization at times. Their aforementioned field of activity is focused on regions, where a power vacuum occurred as the result of the dissolution of the USSR and the subsequent decline in the state authority. The attempts of Selefi organizations such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda to infiltrate into the Caucasian region are common. It should be noted that the indicated organizations house a large number of terrorists from this region within their own structure and that they also receive external aid andassistance. In this article, the actions of the fundamentalist groups to settle into the Northern Caucasian Region and their activities shall be analyzed within the historical context. Afterwards,
- MakaleYalnız künye2016The european union foreign policy and power factors affecting its actorness: civilian power, military power and normative power
Ugur, Omer; Aksoy, Metin
An important part of the debate on the European Union (EU) is whether the EU has an existing foreign policy, the predictability of the foreign policy and to built on what constitutes the power of its foreign policy. In parallel with these discussions, the EU as an international actor has developed foreign policy based on civil, military and normative power. Accordingly, the EU has created it strategies. This strategy parameters constitutes economic/civilians, normative and military tools. The EU is trying to indicate its effectiveness and enhance its actorness in the international system by using these tools. However, it is argued that since EU member states do not share long standing and extensive common interest, this leads to not only block agreement on creating suprenational foreign policy in the EU level, but also prevent to create collective capabilities by using these tools.
- MakaleYalnız künye2015Aintab american hospital and its effect on the region people (1880-1920)
Taşkın, Faruk; Aksoy, Metin
ABCFM (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions) which was founded in the USA in 1810 began its mission work in Ottoman lands after 1820. This mission organization showed its efficacy on health studies as well as religious, educational and media activities in the Ottoman geography. One of the centers that American Board organizations carried out health studies was Aintab. With the establishing Azariah Smith Memorial Hospital in Aintab missionaries continued to work in line with their targets. American Board was continuing of health studies in Aintab in a dispensary which was established in 1876. Azariah Smith's classmates at Yale University began creating a fund to collect donations for the establishment of a hospital in his memory. Hospital whose construction began in 1879 was completed in 1880. The hospital also has been the administration hospital of the Central Turkey College of Medicine Department. In Azariah Smith Memorial Hospital which was serving a 10bed in 1884 with the addition of women's and children's section the number later was found 42. In hospital services were provided without distinction of religion, race and gender. Ethnic distribution of patients which was treated in hospital were Turks, Armenians, Kurds, Arabs, Greeks, Circassians, German, Syrian and Jewish. The religious distribution were; Muslims, Gregorian, Protestant, Greek Catholic, Jewish and Mormon. The subject of this paper is Aintab American Hospital and its effect on the region people in the framework of missionary activity. In this context, American Board's activities will be discussed referring to the missionary activities, social and ethnic structure of the region. This study which includes the 1880-1920 date range was prepared utilizing archives, microfilm, annual reports and hospital catalog of the American Board. American Hospital in Aintab continues its works as Gaziantep American Hospital today. STRUCTURED ABSTRACT
- MakaleYalnız künye2014The Impacts of the 9/11 Attack on USA Foreign Policy Leaded by George W. Bush
Aksoy, Metin
There has been a wide range of discussions on the approach to American foreign policy from past to present. The main issue is whether the foreign policy was implemented in order to expand the democracy and freedom in a global scale or to use in these concepts in the context of strengthening its hegemony. Specifically, the strategies applied after the 9/11 attack by George W. Bush were pointing out a turning point in a paradigm shift in the foreign policy. This study consists of two parts. In the first part, the general tendency of the conventional American foreign policy is presented. Then, the changes in the foreign policy will be examined in the light of the before and after Bush administration regarding to the 9/11 attack.
- MakaleYalnız künye2014Foreign policy understandings and objectives of american neoconservatives
Aksoy, Metin
Amerika Birleşik Devletlerinin dışpolitikasının belirlenmesinde etkili olan Yeni Muhafazakarların dışpolitika anlayışları, yalnızca ABD'nin içinde merak konusu olmayıp diğer bir çok ülkedede ilgiyle izlenmektedir. Özellikle 11 Eylül saldırısından sonra yeni bir dönemin mimarı olarak görülen Yeni Muhafazakarlar saldırgan amerikan dışpolitikası paraleleinde ve onunla ilişkilendirilerek tahlil edilmeye çalışılmıştır. ABD' nin dışpolitikasını tanımlamak için kullnılan ,,Kovboy Kapitalizmi", ,,Saldırgan Dışpolitika" vb. Olumsuz kavramlar bir biçimde Yeni Muhafazakarların anlaşıylarıyla bütünleştirilmeye çalışılarak onlara mal edilmiştir. Yeni Muhafazakarlara atfedilen kimi kavramlar iç politikada da siyasi malzeme olarak kullanılmış ve bu sayede rakipler zayıflatılmak istenmiştir.. Bu gibi kavramların kullanılması aslında Yeni Muhafazakarların dışpolitika anlayşılarıyla çoğu zaman örtüşmemektedir. Öne sürülen olumsuz çağrışımlar ve eleştiriler yeni muhafazakarların politik anlayışlarının içeriğini yansıtmamaktadır. Bundan dolayı bu çalışmada Yeni Muhafazakarların dış politika anlayışlarının içeriği objektif olarak tartışılmaya çalışılmıştır.
- MakaleYalnız künye2014The water conflict in the euphrat and the tigris river
Aksoy, Metin
As the essential water resources of Middle East the rivers, namely Euphrat and Tigris, meaning a reason for peace and conflict in the same time for the riparian countries: Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. This study examines whether the lack of water resource is also a source of problems among the countries or is the tangible fact which is derived upon the other political reasons. The importance of water and the motives of “change” in the perception of water over time are also questioned. The absence of the formal water convention signed by the countries does not mean that there is no standard exist on how to regulate the water regime. Practically, the suggestions of the International Law Commission (ILC) are taken into consideration. In the study, also the importance of conflicts addressed which occur independently of the water issues