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Necati Anaz is associate professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Istanbul University. He completed his Ph.D. in 2012 at the University of Oklahoma. Anaz previously worked at Turkish National Police Academy in Ankara and Necmettin Erbakan University in Konya. His current research interests include geopolitics of security, soft power, popular geopolitics, geography of film audiences and electoral geography. He continues to publish his works in international and national academic journals. Anaz also shares his opinions in popular media and newspapers about current geopolitical developments. He is author of the new book "Diaspora Representation System" (in Turkish).
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Extending voting rights to citizens living abroad has been one of the longest debated subjects in the Turkish Parliament, even more persistent than is generally assumed in academic and political circles. In this study, we aim to understand how Turkish political decision-makers conceived Turkey’s external residents’ right to vote from abroad and the...
Following the Gezi Movement 2013, Turkey’s capacity to attract international audiences, especially western audiences, diminished and continues to decline. Turkey, through its downslide in democratic freedoms, has lost its positive impact, reputation, and attractiveness for international audiences. This chapter attempts to differentiate between stat...
A significant part of the academic discussions on Turkey’s foreign policy includes Turkey’s soft power capacity. The Justice and Development Party has used soft power more extensively than any other previous government in the history of the Turkish Republic. Turkish soft power consists of both direct state soft power, through its diplomatic expansi...
This study attempts to answer a number of questions inspired by popular geopolitics literature on how the French newspaper, Le Petit Journal, depicted the Ottoman Empire (including the Sultan Abdulhamid II and the Turkish parliament) and reflected their views to their readers in their publications. And how the Ottoman ‘other’ was constructed by the...
We analyzed Facebook and Twitter engagements by Binali Yıldırım and Ekrem İmamoğlu, the two main candidates in the 2019 Istanbul mayoral election, spanning from December 2018 to the end of June 2019 due to the fact that the original elections were disputed and repeated. Social media analytics were used to obtain the data used in the study. We put f...
With its more than 290 flight destinations, Turkish Airlines emerges as Turkey's new face of transportation and a major facilitator of Turkey's international reputation. The airlines' continental connections and in-flight services help Turkey's visibility not only in the air but also on the ground, as being the one of nation's image-making instrume...
Popular Turkish media products, such as films and TV soap operas, are becoming new phenomena in Turkey and abroad that parallel Turkey’s growing economy as well as the opening of sociocultural and political policies to its neighbors and beyond. To many, this geography of connected nations corresponds to Turkey’s Ottoman history and the geography of...
This article is an attempt to answer a number of questions asked in the literature on radicalization and extremism: What motivates foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) from Turkey to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)? In what kind of environment does violent extremism become the choice for Turkish nationals to join ISIS in Syria and Iraq...
During the Cold-War period, the centre of geopolitics moved to the US, as opposed to one that was based in Europe for a long time. The expectation that the Europe might gain its preeminence and central role in global politics again is gaining support, partly because of Cauca-sia's increasingly prominent position in world politics due to the presenc...
Recent years have seen an increase in the number of Turkish soap operas broadcast outside of Turkey, particularly in the Arab world. Turkish television stars quickly became pop idols in the Middle East and the Balkans, creating great sympathy for the Turkish identity, culture, and values. Egypt, with its large population and great importance in the...
This article focuses primarily on geopolitical representations in the Turkish film Valley of the Wolves - Palestine and on the film's cinematizing of Israel's military actions against Palestinians. Through textual readings of the film, the author highlights three main discussion points by conducting textual readings of the film: (1) reading the fil...
This article reviews issues that graduate students face in their everyday academic endeavors and outlines several possible strategies to cope with those issues. Te author addresses two primary issues: the financial concerns that pervade every aspect of graduate life to the point that living a decent life seems impossible, and the responsibilities-...
United States, as the dominant geopolitical power in the Middle East, has been struggling to stabilize the region to achieve its geopolitical objectives and interests. Especially since the Second World War, the US has rioritized, enacted and represented Middle East policies as vital to securing its "national interests" till terrorist attacks on the...
Turkey has been actively pursuing European levels of democracy, a production-oriented open-market economy, and culturally transparent institutionalization especially since the Justice and Development Party took over control of the Turkish parliament in 2002. In 2010, Turkey's electorate voted on a package of twenty-six amendments to the current Tur...
This article investigates Valley of the Wolves Iraq as a cinematic text produced and widely consumed in domestic and international cinema markets. By placing a non-Western movie in the analysis of film studies, the authors claim to situate the film in a three-part analysis that has received less attention from other disciplines. First, the film can...
