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    Turkish Navy's Move 'towards Blue Waters': Its Origins, Development and Implementation
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2021) Özel, Mesut; Çelikpala, Mitat; Kahyaoğlu, Nurhan; Güvenç, Serhat
    After the Cold War, Turkish Navy faced a significant stimulus for change because of major alterations in strategic calculus, military planning, and waging war. To cope with pressing security challenges, Navy charted itself a new course, Towards Blue Waters in the 1990s. Navy's growth and activism, and its role in the progress of defense industries attracted both commendation and criticism. Differences of opinion on the Navy's posture compel a thorough review of the main drivers of change. Focusing on the last three decades, this dissertation endeavors to uncover the geopolitical, strategic, historical, cultural, institutional, political, and economic factors behind this move. Taking this as an idiographic case, the toolbox of the sociological institutionalist model is utilized in explaining Navy's new strategy. Therefore, the process-tracing method is employed by interviewing naval elites/experts and value analysis of leaders' remarks to empirically verify the theoretical explanation. After discussing the historical, cultural, and geopolitical determinants, the case is studied theoretically. Then, the performance of transformation is compared against its promised goals. This research concludes that the institutionalist model provides solid explanations for Navy's adoption of a worldwide norm: projecting security and force. By internalizing the notion of unimpaired access to the world as its organizational essence, the Navy's leaders, who are subscribed to the goal of Turkey's quest to become a sovereign, credible and legitimate member of the international community, figure as the engines for this transformation. In the process, the Navy relied on its skilled and educated manpower as the prime enabler.