05. Fakülteler

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Testing Soft Power in Hard Politics: Turkish Public Diplomacy During “Operation Peace Spring”
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) Güleç Aras, Cansu; Kibaroğlu, Mustafa
Public diplomacy is used by governments to significantly enhance their capability to maintain national unity and integrity as well as to advance their foreign policy objectives by cultivating a favorable environment among foreign peoples. In conflictual situations where military force is used, it is important to create an impact in a short time to promote national interests by informing and influencing the public. This chapter will first introduce the fundamental tenets of public diplomacy to offer a conceptual framework to better understand its use during military conflicts. It will then explore the implementation of public diplomacy instruments by Turkish government during the “Operation Peace Spring”, which was launched in October 2019. The chapter will also assess the performance of Turkish public diplomacy in the face of the extent of criticism leveled against Türkiye from around the world, including allied countries and international organizations.
The Impact of Force Majeure on Contracts for the International Sale of Commercial Goods Under Art. 79 of the CISG
(Istanbul Universtiy Press, 2025) Başoğlu, Başak; Kapancı, Kadir Berk; Kapancı, Kadir Berk
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) aims to harmonise inter0 national trade law by providing unified rules for sales contracts across its 970member countries, as of April 2025. Despite its wide adoption, the CISG’s approach to non0performance and liability differs markedly from domestic legal systems, particularly those based on civil law traditions. The CISG provides that the debtor failing to perform their obligations must compensate for the loss, unless exempted under Article 79, which introduces the concept of “impediment beyond the debtor’s control” as a basis for exemption. For this exemption to apply, the impediment must be unforeseeable, unavoidable, and the direct cause of the failure to perform. However, these criteria make its application rare in practice, while its requirements have been satisfied in only a limited number of cases. This study examines Article 79 CISG in detail, exploring its stringent criteria and the challenges it presents in practice. Furthermore, the paper will assess Article 79’s effectiveness in addressing force majeure and hardship scenarios, despite the absence of explicit references to these concepts within the CISG text.
The Stranger in My Pocket: A Research on the Intention to Use Digital Voice Assistants
(Yaşar Üniversitesi E-Dergisi, 2025) Çizer, Ece Özer; Köse, Şirin Gizem; Bulut, Zeki Atıl
Artificial intelligence-driven digital voice assistants (DVAs) collect, use, and store user data to optimize the user experience. This function of digital assistants leads to privacy concerns, whereas brand trust becomes a mitigating factor in accepting digital voice assistants. Therefore, this study utilizes Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and extends the model by integrating privacy concern and brand trust. Data were collected from participants with tools integrated with DVAs and analyzed via structural equation modeling. Results demonstrate that privacy concern has a negative role, while perceived ease of use, brand trust, perceived usefulness, and attitude have positive roles in determining the usage intention of digital voice assistants. The findings also underline that privacy concern is the most important predictor of the intention to use DVAs and brand trust decreases privacy concern. Yapay zeka destekli dijital sesli asistanlar (DVA'lar), kullanıcı deneyimini iyileştirmek amacıyla veri toplama, kullanma ve depolama işlevlerine sahiptirler. Ancak bu işlevler, gizlilik endişelerini de beraberinde getirmektedir. Bu bağlamda marka güveni, kullanıcıların DVA'ları benimsemesinde dengeleyici bir rol oynamaktadır. Bu çalışmada, Teknoloji Kabul Modeli (TAM) temel alınmış; modele gizlilik endişesi ve marka güveni değişkenleri eklenerek genişletilmiştir. DVA entegre araçlarla katılımcılardan toplanan veriler, yapısal eşitlik modellemesi ile analiz edilmiştir. Sonuçlar, gizlilik endişesinin kullanım niyeti üzerinde olumsuz bir etki yarattığını; buna karşılık algılanan kullanım kolaylığı, marka güveni, algılanan fayda ve olumlu tutumun kullanım niyetini artırdığını ortaya koymaktadır. Ayrıca, gizlilik endişesinin DVA kullanım niyetinin en güçlü belirleyicisi olduğu, marka güveninin ise bu endişeyi azaltarak kabul sürecini kolaylaştırdığı tespit edilmiştir.
UNIDROIT
(Mohr Siebeck, 2026) Kapancı, Kadir Berk
This volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine how diverse legal systems - both common law and civil law, national and international - approach the questions of control and ownership of digital assets. The comparative inquiry reveals not only doctrinal differences, but also shared concerns over legal certainty, market efficiency, and the adaptation of traditional legal categories to new technologies. The chapters traverse a wide range of jurisdictions. Contributions from Germany, France, Switzerland, and Australia illustrate how civil law systems grapple with the limitations of traditional doctrines of tangibility. The United States chapter analyzes the introduction of Article 12 to the Uniform Commercial Code, with its creation of »controllable electronic records«. The United Kingdom and Brazil chapters demonstrate how common law and hybrid systems have sought to adapt flexible doctrines to novel technical architectures. The Hong Kong and Singapore chapters show how Asian common law jurisdictions combine pragmatic judicial reasoning with increasingly granular regulatory oversight. The Mexico chapter highlights how pioneering statutory definitions-such as those in the 2018 Fintech Act-proved both innovative and unduly narrow, creating gaps in the classification of assets under private law. The Taiwan chapter examines the courts' characterization of virtual assets as »movable things,« while suggesting a shift toward a ledger-based model of public notice. Finally, the chapter on UNIDROIT's Digital Assets and Private Law Principles (DAPL) situates these national approaches within an emerging body of international soft law, where the concept of »control« serves as a functional analogue to possession. Taken together, these contributions illustrate convergence in recognizing that digital assets must be capable of being treated as objects of property rights, while also exposing divergence in the doctrinal and institutional means by which that recognition is achieved.

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