Query: neo-ottomanism turkey refugee

title: TURKEY'S REFUGEE POLICY UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE NEO OTTOMANISM: A SOURCE OF SILENT CONFLICT?
abstract: Turkiye'nin devlet duzeyinde Avrupa merkezli ve laik ulus devlet ideolojisinden neo Osmanliciga evrilen gocmen politikasinin yaninda, bu politikanin basarili bicimde ve insan haklarina tam anlamiyla saygili olarak koordine edilmesinin onunde mikro guc duzeyinde ana engeller bulunmaktadir. Ekonomik, kulturel ve bilhassa siyasi faktorler Suriyeliler ile Turkiyeliler arasindaki iliskide rol oynamaktadir. Turkiye'de yasayan Suriye toplumu icindeki bolunmeler de acikca gorulmektedir. Ote yandan, devlet politikasindan farkli olarak, Turkler zimni olarak bu goc dalgasina yonelik hosnutsuzluklarini toplumsal bir kargasa yaratmaksizin gostermektedir. Bu minvalde, yukselen bir trend olan Neo Osmanliciligin goc konusunda toplumun ciddi bir bolumunun daha ilimli bir tavir sergilemesine yardimci oldugu one surulmektedir.

title: Anatolian Security and Neo Ottomanism: Turkey's Intervention in Syria

title: Neo Ottomanism, Eurasianism or securing the region? A longer view on Turkey's interventionism
abstract: Few observers will have noticed that Turkey is second only to the USA in having large parts of its army stationed abroad. This contribution will focus on these interventions which are diverse in nature and political origin. Featuring the second largest territorial army within NATO and only recently exploring its regional and, to some extent, global geopolitical ambitions, Turkey's interventionism is ambiguous and remains difficult to make sense of. While Turkey's interventions may not confront Western interests to the same extent that Russia's do, operations, like in Cyprus, nevertheless cause a general sense of unease about this middle ranking regional power conducting large scale military interventions. While many are not directly sanctioned, others are outright opposed by the West. Starting from Turkey's participation in the Korean War, there is, conversely, a longer history of Turkey playing an integral role in Western interventionism. More recently, Turkey's involvement in the Middle East, and particularly in Syria, has given rise to claims that it continues to pursue a 'neo Ottoman' foreign policy. The short history presented here reflects on the geopolitically awkward position Turkey's interventionism takes up in between ambitions for regional hegemony, a rising global power and an integral part of the liberal Western order.

title: Darko Tanaskovic From Neo Ottomanism to Erdoganism: A Doctrine and Foreign Policy of Turkey

title: Former Empires, Rising Powers: Turkey's Neo Ottomanism and China's New Silk Road
abstract: This chapter recognizes that in emerging Eurasian powers, imperial pasts are celebrated to harness present political and economic energies. It advances a novel unit of analysis "former empires/rising powers" (FERPs) which addresses the Western centric bias of much international relations (IR) and exceptionalism of much area studies scholarship. Examining Turkey's neo Ottomanism, it considers lessons for other FERPs, especially China's new Silk Road. Recognizing the difference in magnitude between these neo imperial projects, it nevertheless notes that China leaves behind its "short twentieth century" as a middle power to (re)claim great power status in an age of heightened uncertainty. China therefore might note from Turkey's experience as an ambitious middle power that neo imperialist rhetoric can obscure the challenges facing its realization.

title: Erdogan's pragmatism and the ascension of AKP in Turkey: Islam and neo Ottomanism

title: Neo Ottomanism versus Neo Eurasianism? Nationalism and Symbolic Geography in Postimperial Turkey and Russia
abstract: This essay investigates the ideational aspect of contemporary Turkey's identity politics and international conduct and compares these to Russia's. Over the past decade, several analysts have speculated that Russia and Turkey could form a strategic axis based on the shared vision of "Eurasia" and that there is similarity between Moscow's and Ankara's strategic outlooks: Russian neo Eurasianism and Turkey's Kemalist Eurasianism. Yet the outlook that defines Ankara's understanding of Turkish national interest is not so much a permutation of Eurasianist ideas as it is a homegrown postimperial (and post Kemalist) strategic vision, also known as neo Ottomanism. Despite their philosophical affinity, neo Eurasianism and neo Ottomanism contain significant potential for confrontation.

title: Imperial Grandeur and Selective Memory: Re assessing Neo Ottomanism in Turkish Foreign and Domestic Politics
abstract: Since the coming to power of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) the Turkish government's foreign and increasingly domestic politics have been characterized as 'neo Ottoman, a concept which both its critics and champions have wielded in different ways. The article revisits and reassesses articulations of neo Ottomanism in Turkish foreign policy, and explores the significance of its appearance in Turkey's domestic politics in Turkey. In doing so, it offers an explanation that draws out the distinct and varied interpretations of neo Ottomanism present in such debates. It argues that neo Ottomanism as used within a foreign policy milieu is not without its analytical use but is contestable due to its wide range of interpretations. Following this, the article analyzes the more recent appearance of the concept of neo Ottomanism in Turkish domestic politics, highlighting its confluence with the increasing authoritarianism of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a newly empowered president. It highlights how the AKP has embraced and appropriated a precisely delineated neo Ottomanism as a rhetorical and legitimating framework for its domestic policies. In doing so, the article demonstrates how neo Ottomanism as developed and understood in the foreign policy arena initially, has been adopted in domestic politics under the AKP.

title: Turkey's interests in the Syrian war: from neo Ottomanism to counterinsurgency
abstract: With the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011, Turkey quickly embroiled itself in the conflict by supporting, arming and funding armed militants against the Syrian government. The paper contends that the Turkish leadership found the Syrian war was an opportunity to engage in territorial expansionism. What was not envisaged however was the rise of the Kurdish YPG, the Syrian branch of the Turkey based Kurdistan Workers' Party, who are recognized by Ankara as a terrorist organization. The rise of the YPG directly threatens the sovereignty of Syria and portends to establish a Kurdish state right on the border of Turkey's Kurdish majority eastern Anatolia where autonomous and secessionists movements are strong. This has effectively meant that Turkey's Syria policy went from one of neo Ottomanism to counterinsurgency as they attempt to defeat the Kurdish secessionist movement in Syria.

title: Neo Ottomanism Emergence, Ideology and Political Doctrine
abstract: This paper aims to examine the conceptual platform and political doctrines of neo Ottomanism. In particular, the text aims to study the essence and positioning of neo Ottomanism, its emergence and gradual assertion against the backdrop of the Turkish elite's doctrines that have taken shape throughout history, mostly at the contemporary stage of the decline of the Kemalist ideology. The paper holds the view that neoOttomanism is the validating ideology and policy of the new class of entrepreneurship in Turkey, which since the end of Cold War I has been relying on its new economic power, accumulated capital and military supremacy in the region in its attempt to expand its role in international relations. This policy is an attempt to combine values that are incompatible in essence, character and content. In particular, this means that the new ideology, which revives Islamism, aims to get incorporated within the political system of the secular state, and the final result is the Islamization of statehood; the ideology of neo Ottomanism adheres to the Kemalist slogan of 'zero problems' with the neighbouring states, yet from the perspective of 'strategic depth' it inevitably leads to a political and possibly military expansion, which in turn ultimately gives rise to the contemporary form of revanchism (foreign policy aimed at revenge and regaining lost territories) the neo Ottomanist ideology adheres to its 'Western orientation' displaying its aspirations at freeing Turkey from its dependence on the United States, which basically constitutes a claim for taking on the role of a global leader.