Umut Koldas

Near East University · Near East Institute

The process of Europeanisation initiated in Turkey following the 1999 Helsinki summit witnessed a loosening of state control over the Patriarchate of Constantinople under the government of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). In parallel with the AKP’s reforms geared towards EU membership, the Patriarchate’s activities became more transnational...

Does counterterrorist financing (CTF) support the entire process of the global fight against terrorism? Finding answers to this question helps to address the difficulties facing relevant actors in defeating the Boko Haram (BH) terrorist group. This article examines the various funding strategies used by BH as well as the state, sub-regional and reg...

This article attempts to shed light on the challenges confronting relevant actors (state and non-state) in countering the threat of terrorism recruitment by focusing on the Boko Haram terrorist organization, whose presence and activities threaten the security of the Lake Chad region. The article uses a qualitative research technique combining key i...

This article examines the change and continuity in the Turkish policy toward Cyprus since the de facto partition of the island in 1974. The exploration of the relationship between Turkish nationalism and foreign policy toward Cyprus suggests that the language of Turkish nationalism regarding the Cyprus question has been far from monotonous. It is s...

Most of the challenges faced by the Palestinian higher education institutions (HEIs) towards internationalization stem from the problematic nature of bilateral relations of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) with Israel. Evaluating the geo-political, socio-economic, historical, and organizational barriers to internati...

Bu makalede İsrail vatandaşı Filistinli/Arap kadınların etnik, cinsiyetçi ve etno-cinsiyetçi hegemonyalarla ilişkileri bağlamında İsrail başat sistemi tarafından “bizdenleştirilmesi” ve “kontrollü olarak ötekileştirilmeleri” süreçlerinde İsrail anaakım basınının araçsallığı irdelenmektedir. Makalenin temel savı İsrail anaakım basınının İsraillilik...

This article aims to address the internationalization of higher education through sports in an unrecognized state by examining the role of the Near East University (NEU) Women’s Basketball Team in building and consolidating the brand of the university. Drawing on the bourgeoning literature on internationalization and branding of the higher educatio...

Drawing on dominant and alternative ideology and media discourse theories on representation of ethnic minorities by media at the discursive level, this study uses both primary and secondary materials to argue that dominant media discourses regarding ethnic minorities can be replaced or challenged by alternative media discourses especially during pe...

İngiliz sömürge döneminde özellikle idari kamu binalarının tasarımı ve inşası sömürge yönetiminin değişik tarihsel aşamalarında Kıbrıs'ta uygulamaya koyduğu mimari felsefesindeki dönüşüm ve sürekliliklerin önemli bir göstergesi olmuştur. Bu makale, Kıbrıs mimari tarihinin önemli dönüşüm süreçlerinden birini oluşturan İngiliz sömürge dönemini birbi...

The influence of the changes in the administrative and political culture on the architectural design and construction practices has clearly been striking in the urban planning and architecture of Nicosia, which is the center of political power representation in Lusignan, Venetian, Ottoman and British administrations throughout history. This article...

This article elaborates on the change and continuity in the hegemonic nature of economic communication between the Palestinian and Israeli societies after the signing of the Paris Economic Protocol of 1994. Drawing on the differences between the Realist and Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, the article reflects on unused transformative capacity of...

The capital city of Cyprus, Nicosia, has been the seat of government and administrative authority throughout the island's history. The Lusignan reign in the twelfth century (1192–1489) was followed by Venetian (1489–1571), Ottoman (1571–1878) and British (1878–1960) rule until the establishment of the independent state of Cyprus (1960–1963). Today,...

For the Jewish citizens of the Turkish Republic, the year 1934 was one of the defining moments in their status quo within Turkey. In June of that year, they became the target of a number of criminal acts in various towns and villages of Turkey's North Western region (Thrace). Turkish state condemned the events and affirmed that it would not allow a...

MULTI-POSSESSED DISPOSSESION: DILEMMAS OF NEW THIRD WORLDISM PALESTINIAN QUESTION IN THE POST-ARAB SPRING Abstract Palestinian Question has usually been considered as one of the key examples of solidarity and resistance among the traditional Third Worldist scholars and activists. New Third Worldism which is based on the ideas on a non-state centric...

Drawing on the changes and continuities in Greek official discourse and state policies towards the Turkish speaking Muslim minority in the 1990s, this article discusses the impact of Europeanization process on the state-minority relations in Greece from the neo-Gramscian perspective. Referring to an upper cycle of hegemony-in-building process betwe...

This article aims to analyze Turkish press discourses about the Armenian minority during the 1965 events, which were organized against Turkey by the Armenian diaspora. In the light of theoretical debates on minority-media relations, the article mainly examines and discusses the representation of the Armenian minority within the Turkish press during...

As a society of immigrants, Israel has developed several strategies, norms and structures to integrate diverse immigrant groups into the various stages and processes of production. Each wave of immigration to Israel has taken place within a particular historical context and has been comprised of a different group of immigrants with their own distin...

Changes in the international, regional and domestic arenas in the late 1990s resulted in discursive change with regard to interpretation of the Al Nakba in the political and civil societies of the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel. Apart from fuelling a discursive challenge to the Israeli dominant discourse about the 1948 events, this reinterpret...