Browsing by Author "Yanik, Lerna K."

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Constructions of European Identity: Debates and Discourses on Turkey and the EU
(Uluslararasi Iliskiler Konseyi dernegi, 2013) Koharik Yanık, Lerna
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Contesting the Corrupt Elites, Creating the Pure People, and Renegotiating the Hierarchies of the International Order? Populism and Foreign Policy-Making in Turkey and Hungary
(Oxford Univ Press, 2022) Hisarlıoğlu, Fatma Fulya; Koharik Yanık, Lerna; Korkut, Umut; Civelekoglu, Ilke
This article explores the link between populism and hierarchies in international relations by examining the recent foreign policy-making in Turkey and Hungary-two countries run by populist leaders. We argue that when populists bring populism into foreign policy, they do so by contesting the corrupt elites of the international order and, simultaneously, attempt to create the pure people transnationally. The populists contest the eliteness and leadership status of these elites and the international order and its institutions, that is, the establishment, that these elites have come to represent by challenging them both in discourse and in action. The creation of the pure people happens by discursively demarcating the underprivileged of the international order as a subcategory based on religion and supplementing them with aid, thus mimicking the distributive strategies of populism, this time at the international level. We illustrate that when populist leaders, insert populism into foreign policies of their respective states, through contesting the corrupt elites and creating the pure people, the built-in vertical stratification mechanisms of populism that stems from the antagonistic binaries inherent to populism provide them with the necessary superiority and inferiority labels allowing them to renegotiate hierarchies in the international system in an attempt to modify the existing ones or to create new ones.
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Identity, Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Sovereignty: Narrating Turkey and Greece Through Ayasofya
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024) Hisarlıoğlu, Fatma Fulya; Koharik Yanık, Lerna; Yanik, Lerna K.
The article examines how Turkey's decision to reconvert the Ayasofya Museum into a mosque in June 2020 has shaped the 'self' and 'other' perceptions of the Greek and Turkish politicians of their respective countries by instrumentalizing the concept of sovereignty. We argue that what has been termed 'the right to sovereignty' by Turkey's leadership through the reconversion of Ayasofya-from a museum to a mosque-is indeed a 'sovereignty performance'. What is more, we deconstruct how 'sovereignty performances' centred on the conversion of Ayasofya produced by Turkey and Greece came to define, narrate and naturalize the essence and standards of 'national' and 'foreign/international' legitimizing mutual and respective identity perceptions held for themselves and each other.
Populist Hyperpersonalization and Politicization of Foreign Policy Institutions
(Oxford Univ Press, 2024) Ozdamar, Ozgur; Yanik, Lerna K.
This article explains how right-wing populist leaders in Hungary, Poland, Russia and Turkey have transformed their states' foreign policy institutions through personalization and politicization. We examine the transformation of foreign policy institutions in the four cases and make two contributions. First, we differentiate between disparate types of personalization by proposing the term 'hyperpersonalization'-populist leaders' reliance on security institutions in foreign policy decision-making-which distinguishes the populist transformation of foreign policy institutions in Russia and Turkey. We argue that lower levels and speed of autocratization lead to politicization combined with milder cases of personalization of the foreign policy bureaucracy, while higher levels and speed of autocratization lead to higher levels of personalization in the foreign policy institutions. Second, we lay out the steps and patterns of populist politicization and hyperpersonalization that bring 'deinstitutionalizing restructuring' to foreign policy institutions. As we illustrate, this deinstitutionalizing restructuring involves concurrent bureaucratic expansion and bureaucratic retrenchment. The process is accompanied by a populist narrative that this restructuring is done to realize the 'popular will' or to regain 'full sovereignty'. We conclude the article with the policy implications of this populist transformation of foreign policy institutions.
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The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire's Religiously Inspired Status Symbols
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2024) Hisarlioglu, Fulya; Hisarlıoğlu, Fatma Fulya; Yanik, Lerna K.; Koharik Yanık, Lerna
How do status symbols rise and fall? Or better said, how does a status symbol become a status symbol and then cease to be one? We examine the rise and the fall of the Ottoman Empire's two socialization practices with the international society as status symbols: sending and receiving envoys/establishing permanent representation abroad and granting capitulations/extraterritoriality-economic and legal privileges to primarily European countries. We argue and illustrate that status symbols are products of hegemons of the time that dictate the status symbols of the international order at that particular point in time, with little or no recognition. These symbols emanating from the position that the states occupy in the hierarchy can be status-enhancing rather than status-achieving if these states perceive and locate themselves in the higher echelons of the hierarchy in the international order. We contribute to status-seeking literature by examining the rise and fall of status symbols in a non-Western setting and merging ideational and material factors in status-seeking literature.
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Turkey and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: an Interplay of Bloc (de)formation, Recognition and Asymmetric Interdependencies?
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Yanik, Lerna K.; Koharik Yanık, Lerna
This piece answers some of the issues (such as the potential emergence of new blocs, the role of interdependencies, and Western recognition) raised in Debating the War in Ukraine by examining Turkey's role in the war in Ukraine. It argues that Turkey's somewhat balanced policy in the war, trying to please both Ukraine and Russia, stems from three main considerations. First, Turkey's economic and strategic asymmetric interdependency (in Syria) on Russia prevents Turkey from taking actions that might run against Russian interests in the war in Ukraine. Second, Turkey's balanced attitude legitimizes Turkey's position to undertake mediation efforts to end the war, fulfill the global leadership role envisioned by the JDP-led Turkey, and also has the potential to garner Turkey some Western recognition, which might not be domestically translated. Finally, the balanced attitude is also a well-poised strategy for Turkey to garner a stake in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.
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Turkey's Soft Power A Conceptual Overreach and a Conversation in Multiple Concepts
(Columbia Univ Press, 2021) Koharik Yanık, Lerna; Yanik, Lerna K.
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