TY  - JOUR
TI  - Debating Eurasia: Political Travels of a
Geographical Concept in Turkey
AB  - This article reviews the ways in which various actors in Turkey have used the terms ‘Eurasia’ and ‘Eurasianism’ since the
end of the Cold War. It presents two arguments. First, compared to Russian Eurasianism, it is difficult to talk about the
existence of a ‘Turkish Eurasianism’. Yet, the article employs the term Turkish Eurasianism as a shorthand to describe
the ways in which Eurasia and Eurasianism are employed in Turkey. Second, Turkish Eurasianism is nothing but the
use or instrumentalization of Eurasia to create a geopolitical identity for Turkey that legitimizes its political, economic,
and strategic interests primarily in the post-Soviet space, but, from time to time, also in the Balkans and Africa. Various
Turkish state and non-state actors have used Eurasia to mean different things and justify different goals: reaching out
to Turkic Republics, being pro-Russian, creating a sphere of influence in former Ottoman lands, or, recently, cloaking
anti-Western currents.
AU  - YANIK, Lerna K.
PY  - 2019
JO  - Uluslararası İlişkiler
VL  - 16
IS  - 63
SN  - 1304-7310
SP  - 33
EP  - 50
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/527885
ER  -