TO WHICH EURASIA DOES TURKEY BELONG? A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TURKISH EURASIANIST GEOPOLITICAL DISCOURSES
Journal: Bogazici Journal
Year: 2011

This study argues that there are two prominent Eurasianist discourses in Turkey, the Kemalist and the Ottomanist, and that these traditions draw on three geopolitical traditions: the nationalist, the socialist, and the Islamist. The contents of three representative journals (the nationalist Trk Yurdu, the socialist Teori, and the conservative democrat Trkiye Gnl) are analyzed, investigating their issues published between 1990 and 2010, in order to seek answers to three main questions: First, wha