Browsing by Author "Iseri, Emre"

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Citation - Scopus: 13
A Content Analysis of the AKP's "Honorable" Foreign Policy Discourse: The Nexus of Domestic-International Politics
(Routledge info@tandf.co.uk, 2014) Uğur Cevdet Panayırcı; Emre Iseri; Panayirci, Ugur Cevdet; Iseri, Emre
This article examines political leaders' framing strategies during times of public diplomacy crisis. By focusing on the nexus of domestic-international politics it argues that during public diplomacy crises policy-makers would like to utilize their speech acts on foreign policy issues to manage expectations of domestic public opinion. This paper's main contention is to demonstrate that the head of AKP (Adalet ve Kalki{dotless}nma Partisi) government Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan has instrumentalized his foreign policy speeches with the label of "honorable" to legitimize AKP's practices at the domestic level. © 2014 Taylor & Francis. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Citation - WoS: 7
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Addressing pipeline security regime of the prospective regional energy hub Turkey
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Houndmills Basingstoke Hants. RG21 6XS, 2015) Emre Iseri; Iseri, Emre
Approximately 35 per cent of the world's oil and 75 per cent of its natural gas output are being transported through pipelines. This has rendered the security of critical energy infrastructures (CEIs) such as pipelines as a vital issue of concern even more so following the events of 9/11. This is the case for transit countries located in the Near East such as Turkey where the security of energy infrastructure is at stake daily. Although concerns are growing about a tight energy market with chronically volatile high oil prices and a lack of reliable energy resources states and companies cannot afford to keep their CEIs unprotected. This is an important issue for net energy importer Turkey with its pledge to become the fourth largest energy artery of Europe and its growing energy thirst. In the light of these the paper argues that it is vital for Ankara to address the kinds of threats (that is terrorism vandalism theft) that Turkey's energy pipelines face on the way to becoming a regional energy hub. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Erdogan's War: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2024) Emre Iseri; Iseri, Emre
Citation - WoS: 5
Citation - Scopus: 4
Framing the Syrian Operations: Populism in Foreign Policy and the Polarized News Media of Turkey
(USC ANNENBERG PRESS, 2021) Emre Iseri; Metin Ersoy; Ersoy, Metin; Iseri, Emre
How do news media outlets react to an international crisis during a resurgence of populism at home? Led by President Erdogan's AK Party Turkey's military operations toward Syria provide fertile ground to examine how an increasingly polarized media industry has used populist framing to report on the conflict. Adopting a framing analysis method this article analyses 2166 examples of news coverage of the conflict by 3 mainstream national online news outlets with printed versions affiliated with certain political parties or sociopolitical camps-namely the pro-government Sabah the moderate/the pro-government Hurriyet and the opposition/ Kemalist Sozcu-as well as one alternative media outlet Bianet. The findings reveal that the creation of a sense of crisis over Syria has precipitated a rally-round-the-flag effect. This prompted the ruling AK Party's populist discourses to dominate the public sphere through the mainstream media including opposition outlets with detrimental implications for the state of democracy. It will likely serve as a baseline to make cross-country comparisons on the interplay among the media landscape international crises and authoritarian governments at a time of resurgent populism.
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Citation - Scopus: 19
Media Framing of Climate Change Action in Carbon Locked-in Developing Countries: Adaptation or Mitigation?
(Routledge, 2021) Defne Günay; Emre Iseri; Meti̇n Ersoy; Adeola Abdullateef Elega; Ersoy, Metin; Gunay, Defne; Iseri, Emre; Elega, Adeola Abdulateef
As the public draws most of its information on scientific issues from the media studies of media coverage of climate change have proliferated. Here we analyze whether newspapers in developing countries frame climate action as an adaptation or mitigation issue. Mitigation refers to activities to reduce or prevent carbon emissions whereas adaptation refers to activities to adjust economic and social systems to the effects of climate change. To this end we conduct a comparative quantitative analysis of climate change news framing in newspapers from two carbon locked-in developing countries: Nigeria and Turkey. Our first research question is whether newspapers in the two countries frame climate change as a mitigation or adaptation issue. Our second research question is whether there is a relationship between the use of foreign sources and the use of a mitigation frame. We find more adaptation framing in Nigerian newspapers whereas adaptation and mitigation frames are more evenly seen in Turkish newspapers. We also find that the use of foreign sources in news with a climate action frame is negatively correlated with the use of an adaptation frame in our sample. Our findings improve understanding of the factors shaping climate change communication in developing countries. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Populist and Anti-Populist Discourses in Nigerian and Turkish Presidential Elections: Populist Zeitgeist Debate Revisited
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2025) Emre Iseri; Muhammad Auwal Ahmad; Ezgi Su Mete; Metin Ersoy; Ersoy, Metin; Iseri, Emre; Ahmad, Muhammad Auwal; Mete, Ezgi Su
Today many scholars question whether populism has indeed become the zeitgeist detriment of democracies around the globe. This study compares populist discourses in Nigeria and T & uuml,rkiye during their 2023 presidential campaigns. Utilizing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) it explores how did the victorious presidential candidates employ digital media platforms to disseminate their populist and anti-populist messages? This research reveals that Bola Tinubu's anti-populist discourses mitigated polarization and led to a smooth electoral success in Nigeria. In sharp contrast Recep Tayyip Erdo & gbreve,an's populist discourses exacerbated political divisions in T & uuml,rkiye. It concludes that populism neither universally dominates global trends nor guarantees electoral victory even in polarized Eurasian-African context. Nonetheless whether labeled as populist or anti-populist during electoral campaigns such characterizations do not necessarily translate into corresponding policy actions once in office.
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Citation - Scopus: 12
The sphere of consensus in a polarized media system: The case of Turkey during the catastrophic coup attempt
(University of Southern California info@ijoc.org, 2019) Emre Iseri; Eser Şekercioğlu; Uğur Cevdet Panayırcı; Sekercioglu, Eser; Panayirci, Ugur Cevdet; Iseri, Emre
How does a highly polarized media system respond to a catastrophic event? The July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey provides fertile ground to examine how a catastrophic event has shaped the editorial policies of news media outlets in a highly polarized media system. This article hypothesizes that mainly due to the peculiarities of the Turkish media system even at the time of a catastrophic event the framing strategies of media outlets converge only to a limited degree on a sphere of consensus. Adopting a content analysis methodology we analyze the framing strategies of four national newspapers affiliated with specific sociopolitical camps (the pro-government Sabah the moderate Hürriyet and the oppositional Sözcü and Cumhuriyet). We reach the counterintuitive conclusion that these news outlets used different framing strategies in the immediate aftermath of the coup attempt and that the gap between them widened over the period of analysis. © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Citation - Scopus: 7
Turkey's entangled (energy) security concerns and the Cyprus question in the Eastern Mediterranean
(Taylor and Francis, 2019) Emre I˙şeri; I˙şeri, Emre; Iseri, Emre
[No abstract available]
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Turkey’s regional powerhood within regional (In)security complex: Transformation from a conflict-ridden environment into a security community
(Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, 2015) OÇ§uz Dilek; Emre Iseri; Nihat Çelik; Celik, Nihat; Dilek, Oguz; Iseri, Emre
Many optimists believed that the “Arab Spring” was a ripe moment for regional radiant Turkey with its pro-active stance that could trigger “demonstrative effect” and transform the conflict-ridden Middle Eastern (in) security complex into a pluralistic security community. However those expectations on Turkey’s capabilities to transform the region have fallen short as Middle East re-entered into turmoil. In this light the article aims to conduct an academic inquiry into the reasons that curtailed Turkey of priming the pump for a regional security community in the region. It argues that international system (structural) sub-systemic (regional) and finally that of agential factors (Turkey’s own domestic embodiment) hindered Turkey’s efforts to transform the Middle East into security community. It concludes that three main hindrances (that of systemic sub-systemic and domestic) which altogether but particularly the latter render Turkey to fall short in restoring peace and stability back to the Middle East at the time of Arab uprisings. © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Unexpected Persistence Amidst Enlargement Stasis: Usages of Europe in Turkey's Nuclear Energy Debate
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2017) Defne Gunay; Emre Iseri; Gunay, Defne; Iseri, Emre
Recent studies on European Union (EU) Enlargement have emphasised the importance of usages of 'Europe' by domestic actors as a necessary condition for the EU to have an impact on domestic politics. We study the usages of Europe in the critical case of Turkey's nuclear energy policy. We analyse the narratives and actions of domestic actors in Turkey to identify if they use 'Europe' (the EU and the idea of Europe). We reach the counter-intuitive finding of usages by both state and non-state actors which illustrates that usages of Europe can persist despite enlargement stasis in candidate states.