Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

This article addresses the question of how to theorize the relation between uncertainty and governmentality with regard to displacement and its consequences. It explores the experiences of asylum seekers in Turkey and the bureaucratic processes of refugee status determination, local dispersal, and third country resett…

How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read the ending – the Rise of the West and the decline of the East – into the past? What if we did not assume that Asia was just a residual category, a variant of 'not-Europe', but saw it as a space of with its own particula…

In recent years, illegal transit migration through Turkey, together with the use of Turkey’s territory as a transition post for onward migration towards the west, has become an issue of growing importance to the Turkish government. The government seeks to control and manage transit migration, often organized by crimin…

Through an analysis of the interpretation of three events by the secular and Islamist press, this essay shows how widespread the “Sèvres Syndrome” is in Turkey, tracing the reasons for and origins of this “siege paranoia.” The premise of the study is that the Sèvres Syndrome inevitably compromises Turkish intellectual…

• MİCHELANGELO GUIDA

Resolution of conflicts over the sharing of water resources in the Middle East has emerged over the past decade as one of the fundamental issues for peace and stability in the region. The disputes over the Euphrates-Tigris Rivers among Turkey, Syria and Iraq are no exception. With the initiation of dam building and va…

• SADİYE MİNE EDER

According to the conventional wisdom, there is no separation between religion and the state in Islam. Ernest Gellner thus asserted that Islam ‘was the state from the very start’. Most readings of ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ aver that since Islam fuses religion and politics, the idea of the state flows from the inner logi…

Transboundary water politics in the Euphrates-Tigris river system have evolved with competitive power dynamics and cooperative institutional development. We analyze the evolution of transboundary water relations over four consecutive periods. The first period coincided with nation build ing in the region, when the rip…

In this study, the width/length-weight relationships by sex, combined with the condition factors, of the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus Rathbun 1896) population living in Beymelek Lagoon Lake (Antalya) were examined. A total of 1027 samples ranging from 5.1 to 18.1 cm in width and weighing between 8.92 and 448 g were…

Islamists have more power in the Turkish political system than ever. Their 2007 electoral majority in parliament has allowed them not only to control the government but also to elect the president. Islamists thus pose a major challenge to the political domination of the ruling secularist coalition that increasingly ex…

• SEDA DEMİRALP

The idea that intense processes of globalization force us to rethink state-centric approach to issue of in post-Cold War era is gaining currency in both academic and public discourse. The world is no longer marked by sense of certainty, trust, and modernity is supposed to provide in societal and international relation…

The Ottoman Mobilization of Manpower in the First World War offers a multi-faceted story of how the Ottoman Empire tried to cope with the challenges of permanent mobilization under total war conditions which reshaped state-society relations. By focusing mainly on Anatolia and the Muslim population, Mehmet Beşikçi argu…

In an era of global turmoil generating significant challenges to global security and requiring global solutions, humanitarian intervention, and assistance become central concerns at the intersection of globalization studies and international relations. In this context, Turkey is emerging as a more proactive and autono…

• REŞAT BAYER