Faculty member of our department Prof. Emel Parlar Dal and Mert N. Matsumoto have published their article titled "Navigating Rough Seas: Reconstructed Turkish Maritime Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean" in Turkish Studies.

This article offers an analysis of Turkish maritime identity (MI) construction in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, and explores how it shapes a state's foreign policy and position. It develops a Middle Power Maritime Typology (MPM) and examines Turkey as a middle power, focusing on its MI and assesses the changes and continuities of it over time and the impact of this newly constructed identity on Turkey's role as a security and peace actor in the region and beyond. Since 2016, Turkish MI has developed through a dynamic interplay of top-down government initiatives and bottom-up demand connections with the sea.

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