Browsing by Author "Çelik, Nihat"

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Global Fault Lines and Turkey's Regional Integration Policies: A Political-Economic Model Suggestion
(HALE SIVGIN, 2017) Serhan Oksay; Emre Iseri; Nihat Celik; Çelik, Nihat; Oksay, Serhan; İşeri, Emre
The main objective of this study is to measure prospects for Turkey's regionalization efforts in its immediate geography with various political economic fault lines. For this purpose it has proposed an interacting two-legged-political (establishment of stable peace) and economic (interdependence)-regionalization/integration model. In the framework of our model it comparatively analyzes Turkey's regionalization moves such as the EU the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) countries. Considering levels of political-economic relations with those groupings it concludes that without presence of solid political ground of regional stable peace none of Turkey's regionalization moves do have any prospects to reach advanced stages of integration/regionalization.
Citation - WoS: 37
Citation - Scopus: 37
Islamically oriented humanitarian NGOs in Turkey: AKP foreign policy parallelism
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2016) Nihat Celik; Emre Iseri; Çelik, Nihat; İşeri, Emre
This paper aims to contribute to the growing Foreign Policy Analysis literature by focusing on the role of non-state actors in foreign policy implementation. Special attention is paid to the case of Turkey which has emerged as a humanitarian state' in the last decade. In Turkey relatively new Islamically oriented humanitarian NGOs (HNGOs) have been providing ever-increasing amounts of humanitarian aid throughout the former Ottoman lands including the Middle East and Africa. Employing a constructivist-realist perspective this paper asserts that a parallelism' if not a complementarity exists between Turkey's Islamically oriented HNGO discourse and practice and AKP foreign policy implementation process. Based on primary qualitative data acquired from interviews this study has identified various degrees of parallelism between the two calling into question the status of these HNGOs as purportedly non-governmental entities.