Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü Koleksiyonu

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Better Basin Management With Stakeholder Participation
(Cambridge University Press, 2021) Schmandt, Jurgen; Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül
This interdisciplinary volume examines how nine arid or semi-arid river basins with thriving irrigated agriculture are doing now and how they may change between now and mid-century. The rivers studied are the Colorado, Euphrates-Tigris, Jucar, Limarí, Murray-Darling, Nile, Rio Grande, São Francisco, and Yellow. Engineered dams and distribution networks brought large benefits to farmers and cities, but now the water systems face multiple challenges, above all climate change, reservoir siltation, and decreased water flows. Unchecked, they will see reduced food production and endanger the economic livelihood of basin populations.
Conclusion : What We Found and What We Recommend
(Cambridge University Press, 2021) Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül; Schmandt, Jurgen; Ward, George H.
This interdisciplinary volume examines how nine arid or semi-arid river basins with thriving irrigated agriculture are doing now and how they may change between now and mid-century. The rivers studied are the Colorado, Euphrates-Tigris, Jucar, Limarí, Murray-Darling, Nile, Rio Grande, São Francisco, and Yellow. Engineered dams and distribution networks brought large benefits to farmers and cities, but now the water systems face multiple challenges, above all climate change, reservoir siltation, and decreased water flows. Unchecked, they will see reduced food production and endanger the economic livelihood of basin populations.
EU-Turkey Relations: Towards a Transactional Future amid Conflictual Cooperation
(Nomos, 2021) Saatçioğlu, Beken
This chapter first summarises and synthesises the findings of the chapters in order to advance an overall scenario for the future of EU-Turkey relations, which is “conflictual cooperation”. It then elaborates on the scenario based on the drivers emanating from the chapters and the recent critical developments weighing on the relations. It concludes by reflecting on the future of the relations in light of their current transactional nature which has been growing since the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis.
Exploring Environmental Justice: Meaningful Participation and Turkey’s Small-Scale Hydroelectricity Power Plants Practices
(Springer, 2021) Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül; Sayan, Caner
This chapter explores the emerging concept of meaningful participation within the framework of environmental justice, with specific reference to Turkey’s recent experience of building several small-scale hydroelectricity power plants (HEPP). The paper scrutinizes the HEPP process, including its entrenched legal framework, and attempts to come up with suggestions to elaborate further on the concept of meaningful participation.
Global Context of Crises, and Local Patterns of Rivalry and Cooperation
(The Middle East Studies Center at the Ohio State University, 2016) Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül
Cooperation was essential between the three riparian nations if they were to effectively coordinate their use of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The global political environment presented obstacles, however. During the course of the Cold War the riparian nations found themselves in different political camps. The governments of Syria and Iraq had allied themselves with the Soviet Union and Turkey had joined the NATO coalition. This further stressed diplomatic ties, which in turn further stressed cooperation between the riparian water authorities.
Historical Review of Formal and Informal Water Institutions in the Euphrates-TigrisRegion with a Specific Focus on WaterRelations between Turkey and Iraq
(World Scientific Publishing Company, 2025) Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül
This chapter will portray and critically analyze waterinstitutions in the ET basin, be they intangible principles and rules that areadopted in stakeholder practices, or formal or informal organizational structuresthat have been established by the respective states or non-governmental entities.Particular attention will be paid to the current institutional frameworks, such asbilateral high-level political and bureaucratic dialogue between Turkey and Iraqas well as the science-diplomacy and capacity development initiatives that havebeen developed in the midst of the prolonged crisis in the region. The chapter willalso analyze the evolution of national water management institutions, particularlyas they relate to river basin planning and sectoral (i.e., irrigation) water policy andmanagement issues. The analysis of interactions between transboundary andnational water management institutions will be enriched by focusing on the grow-ing role of civil society organizations in war-torn Syria where national and trans-boundary institutions did not have significant weight during the ongoing conflict.
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Legal and Institutional Foundations of Turkey’s Domestic and Transboundary Water Policy
(Springer International Publishing, 2019) Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül
Turkey’s water policy and management is a culmination of various laws and regulations governed by a range of national ministries and executive administrations. Over time, several changes were made in the existing legislation and institutions, which ended up with complex water management system in Turkey. Existing surface and groundwater laws have become insufficient in responding to the increasing water demand and diminishing water supply. On the other hand, neoliberal transformation of Turkish economy in the 1980s and the country’s harmonization process with the European Union since the early 2000s have produced new primary and secondary water legislations in the domestic water, irrigation, hydropower and the environment sectors. In this context, this chapter, firstly, describes the principal water legislation in Turkey. Secondly, main water institutions are depicted with specific attention to the reorganization processes of various key ministries due to domestic and regional political changes. Finally, Turkey’s transboundary water policy is delineated with its basic principles and prevailing practices.
Mixed Marriage Patterns in Istanbul: Gendering Ethno-Religious Boundaries
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) Kaymak, Özgür
This study focuses on the mixed marriages between individuals from Rum Orthodox, Jewish, and Armenian communities with Muslims, who are legally regarded as ethnic-religious minorities and clustered in the urban geography of Istanbul with the ever-decreasing population. Little attention has been paid into the private sphere dynamics and practices of non-Muslims of Turkey. Hence, this research will try to understand the identity construction of Rum, Jewish, and Armenian communities in the private sphere within the context of mixed marriages. Particularly the gendered structure of the ethno-religious boundaries drawn between the minorities and the wider society are problematised. The chapter benefits from 51 in-depth interviews conducted between 2018 and 2019 with the members of Rum Orthodox, Jewish, and Armenian communities from different social class, age, and gender, who are residing in Istanbul. The data collected through this fieldwork will be presented in the light of the debate in the family and marriage, gender, and minority literature. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Nato'nun Suriye Stratejisi
(SETA, 2016) Kibaroğlu, Mustafa
Bu yazının amacı, aklın ve mantıgˆın geregˆi olarak sahip oldugˆu gu¨c¸lu¨ askeri ve lojistik imkan ve kabiliyetleri ile Suriye’de yas¸anan sorunun c¸o¨zu¨mu¨ ic¸in mu¨ttefiki Tu¨rkiye ile birlikte aktif bir s¸ekilde su¨rece dahil olması gereken NATO’nun, neden ve nasıl bugu¨ne kadar kararlı bir tutum takınmamıs¸ oldugˆunu anlamaya ve ac¸ıklamaya c¸alıs¸maktır. Bu amaca yo¨nelik olarak o¨nce NATO’nun ku¨resel siyasetteki yeri ve Ortadogˆu bo¨lgesine yo¨nelik bugu¨ne kadarki tutumu tanımlanacak, ardından Suriye krizi o¨zelinde I·ttifak’ın izledigˆi stratejinin Tu¨rkiye’nin gu¨venligˆine ve dıs¸ politikasına ne gibi etkileri oldugˆu degˆerlendirilecektir.
Nuclear Security and Turkey: Dealing With Nuclear Smuggling
(EDAM (Educational Consultancy and Research Center), 2015) Kibaroğlu, Mustafa
The number one security threat perceived by the authorities in the West, particularly the United States, is nuclear terrorism. In order to prevent such a contingency, world leaders gathered together in 2010, 2012, and 2014 in Washington, D.C., Seoul, and The Hague, respectively, to discuss the necessary measures to keep nuclear and radiological material away from the reach of terrorist organizations.
Political Economy and Political Ecology of the Turkish Section of Asi River Basin
(The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and MEF University, 2016) Turhan, Etemcan; Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül
The Turkish section of the Asi River Basin is a historically contested territorywith not only a rich cultural/historical heritage and rapidly changing populationdynamics but also a region with a high value-added agricultural production. Hatay– the city where Asi River enters Turkey – is surrounded by the Syrian border toits east and the Mediterranean Sea to its west while also forming the southernmostpart of Turkey. This study focuses on the political economy/political ecology of theTurkish section of the Asi River Basin with a focus on population, economy, governance and agriculture as the key sector in the region vis-à-vis the Asi as a localsocio-ecological metabolism.
Rising Illiberalism in the European Periphery and the Eu's Application of Membership Conditionality for Democratic Governance
(Springer International Publishing, 2022) Saatçioğlu, Beken
Illiberalism has recently risen both within the EU and in the European periphery following a global trend of democratic recession, which includes notable cases such as Hungary, Poland, and Turkey, among others. This has revived interest in the EU's role and capacity for promoting liberal democratic governance, as the principal international institution with claims to liberal democratic rule transfer. This chapter investigates how consistently the EU has used its principal policy instrument to tackle illiberalism, namely, membership conditionality. It focuses on EU-Turkey relations within the context of the 2015/2016 Syrian refugee crisis as a test case for the EU's ability and willingness to execute conditionality in times of crisis. Two arguments are made. First, as the EU externalised the crisis to Turkey, consistency of conditionality was compromised by European geostrategic interests that trumped the pursuit of democratic values vis-a-vis Turkey. Second, the strategic EU-Turkey partnership that ensued served to deepen Turkey's move away from the EU's democratic norms that lie at the heart of political conditionality. Consequently, unintended illiberal outcomes were fostered by the EU's transactional policy vis-a-vis Turkey. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands
(Cambridge University Press, 2021) Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül
The water question emerged on the international agenda in the Euphrates–Tigris (ET) basin when the three riparian nations, namely Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, initiated major water and land resources development projects in the late 1960s. The political linkages established between transboundary water issues and nonriparian security issues also exacerbated the disagreements over water sharing and allocation. In 1987 and 1990, two bilateral Euphrates water sharing protocols were negotiated. They are acknowledged by all riparian states as being interim agreements. However, these bilateral accords failed to include basic components of sustainable water resources management, namely water quality management, environmental protection, and stakeholder engagement. In the early 1980s, the Euphrates–Tigris basin countries created an institutional framework, namely the Joint Technical Committee. However, they did not empower the committee with a clear and jointly agreed mandate. Instead, the riparian countries continued unilateral and uncoordinated water and land development ventures. Impacts of climate change add to the already complex list of management shortcomings. The basin is one of the most affected regions. The findings of science project significant decreases in the Tigris and Euphrates flows. Examining the water–food–energy nexus in the ET basin is important because there are serious pressures on the river system due to population growth, agricultural practices, hydropower development, and ecosystem mismanagement. We recommend that transboundary institutions should apply the nexus approach, which helps to identify key development drivers as well as to unpack and clarify the development challenges and necessary tradeoffs in the basin. Sustainability of water resources requires stability, cooperation, and peace. The sub-state level conflicts and illegal control of water resources and water infrastructure in the basin deprive people of access to sufficient clean water, energy, and food resources in Syria and Iraq. The prerequisites for establishing or restoring sustainability in a river basin include stability as well as establishing participatory, transparent, inclusive, and accountable governance structures.
Tehdit, Sistem ve İttifak: 21. Yüzyıl Küreselleşme Dinamiklerinde Türk-amerikan İlişkileri
(Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi, 2018) Çağlar, Barış
20. Yu¨zyılın alıs¸ılagelinen gu¨venlik ve dıs¸ politika dinamiklerinin kısmen degˆis¸en seyri gu¨nu¨mu¨z ilis¸kilerini s¸ekillendirmektedir. Eski dinamiklerin hic¸bir cogˆrafi bo¨lgede tamamen silinmemesine ragˆmen, bu degˆis¸imlerin yogˆunlas¸tıgˆı alan Ortadogˆu olmaktadır. NATO mu¨ttefigˆi olan iki u¨lke olmasına kars¸ın, Tu¨rkiye ve Amerika'nın c¸ıkarları Ortadogˆu’da c¸atıs¸maktadır. Hem ikili ilis¸kiler hem de ikili ilis¸kilerle yakından ilis¸kili olan NATO mu¨ttefiklikleri devam etse de, iki u¨lke arasındaki su¨rtu¨s¸me, NATO I·ttifak'ının stratejik amac¸ ve anlamının sadece Tu¨rkiye'de degˆil, Amerika'da da zaman zaman sorgulanmasına kadar varmıs¸tır. Son do¨nemdeki bu gelis¸meleri ve ilis¸kilerin gidis¸atını kavramak ic¸in makalede o¨ncelikle tarihsel arka plana degˆinilmektedir. Su¨rec¸ akıs¸ında Tu¨rk-Amerikan ilis¸kilerinin hem Uluslararası Sistem hem de devlet-analiz- seviyelerinden ayrı ayrı incelenmesi analitik bulmacanın net olmayan parc¸alarını ortaya c¸ıkaracaktır.
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.
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Turkey
(Springer International Publishing, 2019) Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül; Topçu, Sevilay; Kadirbeyoğlu, Zeynep
This chapter reviews irrigation development and policy with specific references to the main water- and land-based regional socioeconomic development projects in Turkey. It analyzes the expansion of irrigation investment as well as institutional and technological changes in irrigation policy and development in parallel with policies of liberalization and decentralization in the late 1980s. The chapter also discusses institutional changes in the management of the irrigation systems as a result of (partial) transfer of management of large-scale irrigation systems to a variety of water user organizations. Finally, it describes current technological and institutional problems and the further challenges to the irrigation sector, such as infrastructure deterioration, risks of drought, environmental and ecological system degradation, and insufficient investment. It also notes the efforts to equip new irrigation schemes with modern technology, such as closed pipes for conveying water instead of open channels, and water-saving micro-irrigation methods rather than surface irrigation techniques.
Turkey and Nuclear Weapons: Can This Be Real
(Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace, 2015) Kibaroğlu, Mustafa
Since the dramatic revelations of Iran’s illicit nuclear activities in 2002,commentators have speculated that Turkey will follow suit and seek toacquire nuclear-weapon capabilities to balance Iran and meet the potentialchallenges of a proliferation cascade in the Middle East. Academics andpundits have scrutinized Turkey’s interest in nuclear energy projects with aview to “discovering the real motives” behind its past and current initiatives.What is the likelihood of Turkey “going nuclear” in the years ahead despiteits outstanding performance under the nuclear nonproliferation regime?Needless to say, this will be a speculative, intellectual exercise,which will be carried out with a view to addressing a number of issues thatare most frequently raised inside and outside of Turkey, such as who wouldbe in charge of a Turkish nuclear-weapon development project, what wouldbe the strategy for evading Turkey’s commitments under the nuclear nonproliferation regime, which capabilities and technologies would be acquiredand/or indigenously developed for becoming self-sufficient in the longterm, who would be the international partners, and the like.
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Turkey's Eu Membership Process in the Aftermath of the Gezi Protests
(Amsterdam Univ Press, 2015) Saatçioğlu, Beken
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Turkey’s Foreign Policy Orientation in the Water Context and the Orontes Basin
(UNESCO, 2015) Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül; Sümer, Vakur
This chapter will basically aim at understanding, explaining and analyzing the foreign policy orientation of Turkey in the transboundary waters context. Turkey’s state practices include a rich history of treaty practices, as well as political statements and actions which culminated in regional water governance trends displaying consensus, but in most cases disagreements. The chapter will analyze how harmonizationwiththeEuropeanUnion(EU)hashadimpactsonthetransboundary water policy discourses and practices in Turkey, and how these changes have been reflected in the country’s relations with its neighbors in the Middle East. The Orontes River Basin is presented as a case-study with its geographical features and hydro-political history. In this context, transboundary water politics in the Orontes will be examined with its entrenched complexities. The chapter will focus on the divergent views of Syria and Turkey over the Orontes, the cooperation initiatives taken in the last decade, specifically the proposed “Friendship Dam” project which came to a standstill after the civil war in Syria and consequent deterioration of relations between Turkey and Syria. The chapter will also briefly present the need for a reappraisal of the transboundary water management practices in the basin so that they would favor greater participation of stakeholders which have traditionally been excluded in the region, such as women.
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Turkish Jews in an Unwelcoming Public Space
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) Kaymak, Özgür
Turkish Jews in an unwelcoming public space” focuses on the transformation of citizenship experiences and daily life practices of Turkish Jews in the last decade. I argue that Turkish Jews’ feelings of insecurity have intensified as consequence of the rising religious conservatism under subsequent AKP governments. This sense of insecurity has become even more acute with the rise of anti-Semitism especially after the 2013 Gezi Park Protests and the July 15 coup attempt in 2016. In this chapter, I discuss the main strategies and performative repertoires that Turkish Jews have adopted in response to this adversarial social and political environment

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