Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

International and Area Studies

Selected Works

Academic/Peer Reviewed

Articles 1 - 11 of 11

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Turkish Foreign Policy Towards The Arab Revolutions (With Hasan Korkut), Mehmet Ozkan Feb 2013

Turkish Foreign Policy Towards The Arab Revolutions (With Hasan Korkut), Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

No abstract provided.


Transnational Islam, Immigrant Ngos And Poverty Alleviation: The Case Of The Igmg, Mehmet Ozkan Apr 2012

Transnational Islam, Immigrant Ngos And Poverty Alleviation: The Case Of The Igmg, Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

No abstract provided.


A New Actor Or Passer-By? The Political Economy Of Turkey's Engagement With Africa, Mehmet Ozkan Mar 2012

A New Actor Or Passer-By? The Political Economy Of Turkey's Engagement With Africa, Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

Despite its Ottoman past in the continent, Turkey did not show a serious interest in African affairs until recently. However, since 1998 there has been a revival in Turkey's involvement in developing relations with Africa. This was a passive attempt initially, but after 2005, it became an offensive one that culminated in the first Turkey–Africa Summit in 2008 and booming economic relations. Despite much rhetoric on humanitarian issues, Turkey's opening to Africa is driven by two factors: Turkey's need to diversify its economic relations in a new global political economy and its re-orientation in global politics. In the current situation, …


El Oriente Medio En La Política Mundial: Un Enfoque Sistémico, Mehmet Ozkan May 2011

El Oriente Medio En La Política Mundial: Un Enfoque Sistémico, Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

No abstract provided.


Integration In The Global South: What Role For Ibsa Dialogue Forum?, Mehmet Ozkan Dec 2010

Integration In The Global South: What Role For Ibsa Dialogue Forum?, Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

No abstract provided.


Turkey’S ‘New’ Engagements In Africa And Asia: Scope, Content And Implications, Mehmet Ozkan Dec 2010

Turkey’S ‘New’ Engagements In Africa And Asia: Scope, Content And Implications, Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

Since the AK Party assumed power in 2002, Turkish foreign policy has gone through a tremendous change both in its content and scope. The most striking and ‘new’ aspect of Turkey’s foreign policy has been toward Africa and Asia. This article examines and offers a holistic view of these developments. African opening represents a perfect convergence of civil society and state cooperation and bear fruit in political, economic and social terms in a very short time. However, the most important implication is that it aims to conceptualize a ‘new’ Africa in Turkey by overcoming the image of two separate Africa: …


What Drives Turkey's Involvement In Africa?, Mehmet Ozkan Dec 2010

What Drives Turkey's Involvement In Africa?, Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

No abstract provided.


Turkey’S Opening To Africa (With Birol Akgun), Mehmet Ozkan Oct 2010

Turkey’S Opening To Africa (With Birol Akgun), Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

No abstract provided.


Turkey's Rising Role In Africa, Mehmet Ozkan Dec 2009

Turkey's Rising Role In Africa, Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

No abstract provided.


Turkey's Darfur Policy: Convergences And Differentiations From The Muslim World (With Birol Akgun), Mehmet Ozkan Dec 2009

Turkey's Darfur Policy: Convergences And Differentiations From The Muslim World (With Birol Akgun), Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

No abstract provided.


Turkish Activism In The Middle East After 1990s: Towards A Periodization Of Three Waves, Mehmet Ozkan Dec 2005

Turkish Activism In The Middle East After 1990s: Towards A Periodization Of Three Waves, Mehmet Ozkan

Mehmet OZKAN

No abstract provided.