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Article A Discourse Analysis of Bilateral Water Agreements Between Türkiye and Iraq: Legal Instruments of Water Diplomacy in the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin(International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2026) Güleç, Cansu; Kibaroglu, AysegulThis study examines the discursive dynamics of bilateral water diplomacy between T & uuml;rkiye and Iraq through a detailed analysis of the legal agreements governing the Euphrates-Tigris (ET) River system. Rather than focusing on the implementation or efficacy of these agreements, the paper investigates how discourse shapes the roles, identities, and power hierarchies of the involved actors over time. Employing a discourse-analytical framework, the research explores how water agreements position actors, embed values, and narrate cooperation in evolving geopolitical contexts. The paper begins with a historical overview of transboundary water relations in the ET basin, emphasizing the prevalence of bilateralism. It then lays out the conceptual and methodological foundations of discourse analysis, drawing on key literature and analytical categories such as presupposition, predication, and subject positioning. The core section applies this framework to four key water agreements between T & uuml;rkiye and Iraq, highlighting thematic shifts and evolving actor roles. A discussion section synthesizes findings through Doty's (1993) discourse model, emphasizing how identities and relations are constructed over time. Finally, the conclusion reflects on the implications of these discursive trends for the future of water diplomacy in the region. The T & uuml;rkiye-Iraq case reveals how bilateral agreements can evolve into discursive tools that align with evolving global water management paradigms, offering politically sensitive basins a transferable approach to linking contested transboundary water issues with more comprehensive and partnership-based water diplomacy.Article Turkey and the EU: Partners or Competitors in the Western Balkans?(2019) Saatçioğlu, BekenThe article analyzes EU-Turkey relations in the Western Balkans (WB) in an attempt to uncover the cooperation and conflict potential between the two in the region. Specifically, it assesses the extent to which Turkey can be considered a partner of the EU versus representing acompetitor or even an alternative to Brussels for the WB countries. It argues that positing Turkey as a proactive, alternative regional power seeking to expand its presence and influence in the region at the EU’s expense are overstated.Despite the EU’s damaged credibility in the pursuit of its enlargement policy, Turkey’s capabilities, incentives and foreign policy priorities simply fall short of producing a competitive “Turkish model/alternative” in the region. First, there are practical limits to Turkey’s regional power status, which is far from representing a realistic substitute for the WB countries’ Euro-Atlantic ties. In addition, despite the difficulties ahead, these countries still aspire for integration into European structures, which is also aligned with Turkey’s foreign policy interests. Second, limitations aside, gaining hegemony in the WB is not Ankara’s foreign policy priority given the urgency of multiple policy issues waiting to be tackled on all fronts. Third, from a Realpolitik standpoint, Turkey and the EU are expected to constructively engage to find solutions for common challenges such as migration, which concerns the WB as well.Conference Object Covid-19 Pandemisinin Nato’nun Kamu Diplomasisi Üzerindeki Etkisi(Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi, 2022) Güleç, CansuDünyanın ilk kez, Çin’in 31 Aralık 2019’da Vuhan kentinde kaynağı bilinmeyen bir solunum yolu rahatsızlığının ortaya çıktığını Dünya Sağlık Örgütü’ne bildirmesiyle haberdar olduğu COVID-19 salgını milyonlarca insanın hayatını kaybetmesine neden olmuş, uluslararası ekonomiyi sarsmış ve toplumsal hayatın tüm yönlerini yıkıcı bir etkiyle değişime uğratmıştır. COVID-19 salgının tüm dünyayı etkisi altına alıp küresel bir krize dönüşmesi karşısında, başta devletler olmak üzere yerel ve uluslararası tüm aktörler krizi yönetme kapasiteleri bakımından yetersiz kalmıştır. Ulusal ve uluslararası tüm aktörler arasında çeşitli düzeylerde dayanışma ve işbirliğine ihtiyaç duyulduğu bu insani kriz sürecinde, NATO müttefikleri bir yandan kendi sınırları içinde bu hastalıkla mücadele ederken, NATO da bu dönemde kamu diplomasisi faaliyetlerini arttırmaya yönelik girişimlerde bulunmuştur. 2020’nin ilk aylarında COVID-19 virüsünün neden olduğu bu küresel salgın, dünya çapında etkili olan krizler sırasında kamu diplomasisi faaliyetlerinin rolünü ve etkinliğini incelemek için önemli bir örneği temsil etmektedir. Özellikle uluslararası askeri bir ittifak olan NATO’nun halk sağlığı tehditlerine karşı oluşturduğu stratejilerin kamu diplomasisi açısından yeterliliğini anlamak bu çalışmanın temel amacını oluşturmaktadır.NATO’nun COVID-19 pandemi sürecindeki kamu diplomasisi uygulamalarının analiz edildiği bu çalışmada, ittifakın pandemi sürecindeki kamu diplomasi faaliyetlerinin irdelenerek nasıl işlerlik kazandığının ortaya çıkarılması amaçlanmıştır. Bu çerçevede öncelikle kamu diplomasisi kavramı tanımlandıktan sonra, NATO’nun COVID-19 salgını karşısında izlediği politikalarla beraber, COVID-19 sürecinin NATO’nun kamu diplomasisi faaliyetlerine olan etkisi ve bu faaliyetlerin yeterliliği ve sınırlılığı ortaya konulacaktır.Presentation The Diplomacy of Water in the Middle East(Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), 2019) Kibaroğlu, AyşegülMiddle East suffers from an abundance of issues that compound water security, including arapidly growing population, uneven economic development, limited amounts of watersupply, negative impacts of climate change and poor water management practices bothwithin and between states. The geopolitical importance of the region, and the conflicts thathave consequently resulted, aggravate the usual problems of using water in a variety ofsettings, such as the Euphrates-Tigris (ET) basin.Transboundary water politics in the ET basin is often marked with political confrontationsamong its major riparians, namely Turkey, Syria and Iraq. However, the basin also hostswater diplomacy governance structures. Thus, the talk will address power dynamics in thebasin with specific references to diplomatic negotiation processes. Bearing in mind thattransboundary water relations in the basin occurs in volatile political circumstances, the talkwill culminate with analyses on the current and emerging issues in the basin, elaborating onthe impact of the Syrian civil war.Research Project Sustainability of Engineered in Arid Lands (seridas)(Houston Advanced Research Center, 2016) Kibaroğlu, AyşegülAyşegül Kibaroğlu is a project team member of an international project entitled Sustainability of Engineered in Arid Lands (SERIDAS), which is led by the scientists from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin and the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC). Within the framework of this project, which was initially funded by Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, Kibaroğlu is collaborating with scientists from the United States, Germany, Brazil, Australia, and Spain, who study the Rivers Euphrates-Tigris, Nile, Rio Grande, Yellow, Murray-Darling, Colorado, Jucar, Limari and São Francisco in order to find out how the rivers will do in the years 2040 and 2060. As part of this project, Ayşegül Kibaroğlu was invited as the visiting scholar by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, UT, Austin to co-convene a gradute course (policy research project) on sustainable governance of international rivers in 2016.Other Why Is Turkey a Hub for Global Intelligence Agencies?(TRT World, 2018) Çağlar, BarışFrom Cold War rivalries, to the rise of global terror networks, international players have historically used Turkey as a stage for their covert operations.Conference Object