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Lerna K Yanık

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ID3699264
NAMELerna K Yanık
GIVEN NAMESLerna K
FAMILY NAMEYanık
SIGNATUREYANIK L K
AFFILIATIONSKadir Has University
ORCID0000-0002-5234-2067
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS22
TOTAL CITATIONS82
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4
  • Identity, Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Sovereignty: Narrating Turkey and Greece Through Ayasofya

    Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Chara Karagiannopoulou et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Balkan and Near…•2025

    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’…

  • Heritage geopolitics: Hegemonic meaning-making, international orders, and the heritagisation of traditional archery in Turkey and beyond

    Open Access•Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Review of International Studies•2025

    This piece argues that to understand how cultural heritage functions as a form of power at the international level, it is essential to deconstruct the ‘productive politics’ that surround and shape the material and symbolic spatial formations of heritage and heritagisation. To this aim, by integrating critical accounts on heritage politics, geopolitics, and biopolitics, this piece deconstructs the dynamics of Turkey’s heritagisation of traditional…

  • The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols

    Open Access•Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Cooperation and Conflict•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    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 a…

  • Populist hyperpersonalization and politicization of foreign policy institutions

    Open Access•Özgür Özdamar, Lerna K Yanik et al.•ARTICLE•International Affairs•2024•Cited by: 3

    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 securi…

  • Turkey and the Russian invasion of Ukraine: An interplay of bloc (de)formation, recognition and asymmetric interdependencies

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    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 …

  • The making of Turkish exceptionalism: The west, the rest and unreconciled issues from the past

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Turkish Studies•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    This article has two main goals. The first is to examine the role of politics of space and time in making Turkey’s international relations. The second is to answer a more general question: what happens to a non-Western state like Turkey that cannot eliminate ‘differences’ that mark that state as non-Western? My answer is that these states handle these ‘differences’ that do not entirely disappear by creating exceptionalism. Exceptionalism rebrands…

  • 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

    Open Access•Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Lerna K Yanık et al.•ARTICLE•International Studies Review•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 27

    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” an…

  • Science and flags: Deconstructing Turkey’s Antarctic strategy

    Lerna K Yanık, H Emrah Karaoguz•ARTICLE•Third World Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    This article explores Turkey’s recent increased interest in the Antarctic by deconstructing how this interest contributes to the making of Antarctic nationalism(s). It makes two arguments. First, Turkey’s status-seeking by being present in the Antarctic contributes to Antarctic nationalism(s) by invoking three distinct yet overlapping strands of nationalisms – banal, pragmatic-techno and Kemalist nationalisms, or what we term assemblage nationali…

  • Cultural heritage as status seeking: The international politics of Turkey’s restoration wave

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanık, Jelena Subotić•ARTICLE•Cooperation and Conflict•2020•Cited by: 13•References: 16

    This article explores the relationship between cultural heritage politics and international status-seeking. We advance a two-fold typology of status-seeking that explains why states engage in cultural heritage restoration practices at home and abroad. First, cultural heritage restoration can be an easy way to signal state respect of its multicultural past while providing cover for continuing anti-multicultural policies of the present. States with…

  • Entrenching geopolitical imaginations: Brand(ing) Turkey through Orhan Pamuk

    Open Access•Cagri Yalkin, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 20

  • Of Celebrities and Landmarks: Space, State and the Making of "Cosmopolitan" Turkey

    Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2017•Cited by: 1

    This paper analyses the (re)production of Turkey’s liminal-hybrid representations through a combination of sports and music celebrity interventions on a specific landmark. It shows that a country’s representations can be reinforced and reaffirmed with the help of celebrities performing their talent on landmarks such as the Bosphorus Bridge and (in some cases) placing another landmark – Ortaköy Mosque – in the backdrop. Combined with the role of c…

  • Bringing the Empire Back In: The Gradual Discovery of the Ottoman Empire in Turkish Foreign Policy

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Die Welt des Islams•2016•Cited by: 2

    This article traces the emergence of references to the Ottoman Empire in the discourse and practice of Turkish foreign policy since the late 1940s. It argues that present-day emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and its legacy in Turkey has not happened in a vacuum, but rather has been a gradual process that has taken place over decades, helping to justify Turkey’s foreign policy. The article also shows that politicians from different sections of the p…

  • Inter-Asian (Post-)Neoliberalism

    Emel Akçali, Lerna K Yanık et al.•ARTICLE•Asian journal of social science•2015•Cited by: 2

  • Turkey's Involvement in the F-35 Program: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward

    Open Access•Serhat Güvenç, Lerna K Yanik et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal Canada s…•2013•Cited by: 2

    Turkey has been involved in the international consortium that builds the F-35 J°int Strike Fighter (JSF) since 1999. The relationship between Turkey and the consortium may appear to be rocky, however, because of Turkey's many hesitations to commit to the JSF program. In this article we argue that these hesitations are strategic, designed to extract maximum benefits for Turkey's defence industry from the consortium manufacturing the fighter jets. …

  • Foreign Policy During 2011 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey: Both an Issue and Non-issue

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Turkish Studies•2012•Cited by: 3

    This article focuses on the foreign policy sections of 2011 election manifestos of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party) (AKP), the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People's Party) (CHP), the Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (Nationalist Movement Party) MHP, and the Emek, Demokrasi ve Özgürlük Bloku (Labor, Democracy and Freedom Bloc) (EDÖB) the pre-election Barş ve Demokrasi Partisi (Peace and Democracy Party) (BDP). Foreig…

  • "Constructing Turkish "exceptionalism: Discourses of liminality and hybridity in post-Cold War Turkish foreign policy

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2011•Cited by: 19•References: 44

  • Valley of the Wolves—Iraq: Anti-Geopolitics Alla Turca

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Middle East Journal of Culture…•2009•Cited by: 2

    This article discusses the Turkish movie Valley of the Wolves—Iraq (Kurtlar Vadisi—Irak), a blockbuster in Turkey in 2006. The movie has made an important mark on the history of Turkish popular culture, not through any artistic achievement, but because of the movie's 'reversed' representations/imaginations. The movie contains favorable views of 'Pax Turca' and 'Pax Islamica' as well as a critique, which is quite anti-American, of the American occ…

  • The Metamorphosis of Metaphors of Vision: "Bridging" Turkey's Location, Role and Identity After the End of the Cold War

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2009•Cited by: 10

    During the Cold War, “buffer” or “bastion” seemed a popular metaphor to describe Turkey. After the Cold War, “bridge,” (and, to some extent, the “crossroad”) metaphor started to dominate the Turkish foreign policy Dışcourse. This article traces the use of “bridge” metaphor in this Dışcourse in the post-Cold War period by the Turkish foreign policy elite. It develops two arguments. First, the word bridge is a “metaphor of vision” combining Turkey'…

  • When National Identity Creation Met Globalization

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•International Studies Review•2008•References: 1

    Journal Article When National Identity Creation Met Globalization... Get access National Identity and Globalization: Youth, State and Society in Post-Soviet Eurasia. By Douglas W. Blum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 225 pp., $85.00 hardcover (ISBN: 9780521876193). Lerna K. Yanik Lerna K. Yanik Department of Political Science, Bilkent University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International S…

  • Nevruz ’ or ‘Newroz’? deconstructing the ‘invention’ of a contested tradition in contemporary Turkey

    Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Middle Eastern Studies•2006•Cited by: 9

    The 1990s saw the addition of Nevruz 1to the long list of public celebrations in Turkey. Traditionally, Nevruz is known as the Iranian or the Persian New Year marking the coming of the spring aroun

  • Culture in International Relations: What Is It Good for

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•International Studies Review•2005•References: 7

    The past decade has seen a proliferation of scholarly literature analyzing the role of culture in international relations. Although Samuel Huntington's (1993)“The Clash of Civilizations” has provided the most notorious and controversial portrayal of the role of culture in world affairs recently, countless other works—including edited volumes by Jongsuk Chay (1990), Lapid and Kratochwil (1996), Gienow-Hecht and Schumacher (2003), along with the wo…

  • The politics of educational exchange: Turkish education in Eurasia

    Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Europe Asia Studies•2004•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    This article assesses the role of educational exchange as a foreign policy tool. It investigates public and private educational ties that were established between Turkey and Turkic populations of Eurasia, including the Turkic republics of the former Soviet Union after 1991-a period which is considered to be the beginning of a new era in Turkish foreign policy making. After spending the Cold War as a buffer state, Turkey felt the need to redefine …

  • "Constructing Turkish "exceptionalism: Discourses of liminality and hybridity in post-Cold War Turkish foreign policy

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2011•Cited by: 19•References: 44

  • Cultural heritage as status seeking: The international politics of Turkey’s restoration wave

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanık, Jelena Subotić•ARTICLE•Cooperation and Conflict•2020•Cited by: 13•References: 16

    This article explores the relationship between cultural heritage politics and international status-seeking. We advance a two-fold typology of status-seeking that explains why states engage in cultural heritage restoration practices at home and abroad. First, cultural heritage restoration can be an easy way to signal state respect of its multicultural past while providing cover for continuing anti-multicultural policies of the present. States with…

  • The Metamorphosis of Metaphors of Vision: "Bridging" Turkey's Location, Role and Identity After the End of the Cold War

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2009•Cited by: 10

    During the Cold War, “buffer” or “bastion” seemed a popular metaphor to describe Turkey. After the Cold War, “bridge,” (and, to some extent, the “crossroad”) metaphor started to dominate the Turkish foreign policy Dışcourse. This article traces the use of “bridge” metaphor in this Dışcourse in the post-Cold War period by the Turkish foreign policy elite. It develops two arguments. First, the word bridge is a “metaphor of vision” combining Turkey'…

  • Nevruz ’ or ‘Newroz’? deconstructing the ‘invention’ of a contested tradition in contemporary Turkey

    Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Middle Eastern Studies•2006•Cited by: 9

    The 1990s saw the addition of Nevruz 1to the long list of public celebrations in Turkey. Traditionally, Nevruz is known as the Iranian or the Persian New Year marking the coming of the spring aroun

  • 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

    Open Access•Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Lerna K Yanık et al.•ARTICLE•International Studies Review•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 27

    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” an…

  • The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols

    Open Access•Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Cooperation and Conflict•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    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 a…

  • Populist hyperpersonalization and politicization of foreign policy institutions

    Open Access•Özgür Özdamar, Lerna K Yanik et al.•ARTICLE•International Affairs•2024•Cited by: 3

    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 securi…

  • Turkey and the Russian invasion of Ukraine: An interplay of bloc (de)formation, recognition and asymmetric interdependencies

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    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 …

  • Foreign Policy During 2011 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey: Both an Issue and Non-issue

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Turkish Studies•2012•Cited by: 3

    This article focuses on the foreign policy sections of 2011 election manifestos of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party) (AKP), the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People's Party) (CHP), the Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (Nationalist Movement Party) MHP, and the Emek, Demokrasi ve Özgürlük Bloku (Labor, Democracy and Freedom Bloc) (EDÖB) the pre-election Barş ve Demokrasi Partisi (Peace and Democracy Party) (BDP). Foreig…

  • The politics of educational exchange: Turkish education in Eurasia

    Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Europe Asia Studies•2004•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    This article assesses the role of educational exchange as a foreign policy tool. It investigates public and private educational ties that were established between Turkey and Turkic populations of Eurasia, including the Turkic republics of the former Soviet Union after 1991-a period which is considered to be the beginning of a new era in Turkish foreign policy making. After spending the Cold War as a buffer state, Turkey felt the need to redefine …

  • Bringing the Empire Back In: The Gradual Discovery of the Ottoman Empire in Turkish Foreign Policy

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Die Welt des Islams•2016•Cited by: 2

    This article traces the emergence of references to the Ottoman Empire in the discourse and practice of Turkish foreign policy since the late 1940s. It argues that present-day emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and its legacy in Turkey has not happened in a vacuum, but rather has been a gradual process that has taken place over decades, helping to justify Turkey’s foreign policy. The article also shows that politicians from different sections of the p…

  • Inter-Asian (Post-)Neoliberalism

    Emel Akçali, Lerna K Yanık et al.•ARTICLE•Asian journal of social science•2015•Cited by: 2

  • Turkey's Involvement in the F-35 Program: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward

    Open Access•Serhat Güvenç, Lerna K Yanik et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal Canada s…•2013•Cited by: 2

    Turkey has been involved in the international consortium that builds the F-35 J°int Strike Fighter (JSF) since 1999. The relationship between Turkey and the consortium may appear to be rocky, however, because of Turkey's many hesitations to commit to the JSF program. In this article we argue that these hesitations are strategic, designed to extract maximum benefits for Turkey's defence industry from the consortium manufacturing the fighter jets. …

  • Valley of the Wolves—Iraq: Anti-Geopolitics Alla Turca

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Middle East Journal of Culture…•2009•Cited by: 2

    This article discusses the Turkish movie Valley of the Wolves—Iraq (Kurtlar Vadisi—Irak), a blockbuster in Turkey in 2006. The movie has made an important mark on the history of Turkish popular culture, not through any artistic achievement, but because of the movie's 'reversed' representations/imaginations. The movie contains favorable views of 'Pax Turca' and 'Pax Islamica' as well as a critique, which is quite anti-American, of the American occ…

  • The making of Turkish exceptionalism: The west, the rest and unreconciled issues from the past

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Turkish Studies•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    This article has two main goals. The first is to examine the role of politics of space and time in making Turkey’s international relations. The second is to answer a more general question: what happens to a non-Western state like Turkey that cannot eliminate ‘differences’ that mark that state as non-Western? My answer is that these states handle these ‘differences’ that do not entirely disappear by creating exceptionalism. Exceptionalism rebrands…

  • Science and flags: Deconstructing Turkey’s Antarctic strategy

    Lerna K Yanık, H Emrah Karaoguz•ARTICLE•Third World Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    This article explores Turkey’s recent increased interest in the Antarctic by deconstructing how this interest contributes to the making of Antarctic nationalism(s). It makes two arguments. First, Turkey’s status-seeking by being present in the Antarctic contributes to Antarctic nationalism(s) by invoking three distinct yet overlapping strands of nationalisms – banal, pragmatic-techno and Kemalist nationalisms, or what we term assemblage nationali…

  • Entrenching geopolitical imaginations: Brand(ing) Turkey through Orhan Pamuk

    Open Access•Cagri Yalkin, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 20

  • Of Celebrities and Landmarks: Space, State and the Making of "Cosmopolitan" Turkey

    Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2017•Cited by: 1

    This paper analyses the (re)production of Turkey’s liminal-hybrid representations through a combination of sports and music celebrity interventions on a specific landmark. It shows that a country’s representations can be reinforced and reaffirmed with the help of celebrities performing their talent on landmarks such as the Bosphorus Bridge and (in some cases) placing another landmark – Ortaköy Mosque – in the backdrop. Combined with the role of c…

  • The politics of educational exchange: Turkish education in Eurasia

    Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Europe Asia Studies•2004•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    This article assesses the role of educational exchange as a foreign policy tool. It investigates public and private educational ties that were established between Turkey and Turkic populations of Eurasia, including the Turkic republics of the former Soviet Union after 1991-a period which is considered to be the beginning of a new era in Turkish foreign policy making. After spending the Cold War as a buffer state, Turkey felt the need to redefine …

  • Culture in International Relations: What Is It Good for

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•International Studies Review•2005•References: 7

    The past decade has seen a proliferation of scholarly literature analyzing the role of culture in international relations. Although Samuel Huntington's (1993)“The Clash of Civilizations” has provided the most notorious and controversial portrayal of the role of culture in world affairs recently, countless other works—including edited volumes by Jongsuk Chay (1990), Lapid and Kratochwil (1996), Gienow-Hecht and Schumacher (2003), along with the wo…

  • Nevruz ’ or ‘Newroz’? deconstructing the ‘invention’ of a contested tradition in contemporary Turkey

    Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Middle Eastern Studies•2006•Cited by: 9

    The 1990s saw the addition of Nevruz 1to the long list of public celebrations in Turkey. Traditionally, Nevruz is known as the Iranian or the Persian New Year marking the coming of the spring aroun

  • When National Identity Creation Met Globalization

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•International Studies Review•2008•References: 1

    Journal Article When National Identity Creation Met Globalization... Get access National Identity and Globalization: Youth, State and Society in Post-Soviet Eurasia. By Douglas W. Blum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 225 pp., $85.00 hardcover (ISBN: 9780521876193). Lerna K. Yanik Lerna K. Yanik Department of Political Science, Bilkent University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International S…

  • Valley of the Wolves—Iraq: Anti-Geopolitics Alla Turca

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Middle East Journal of Culture…•2009•Cited by: 2

    This article discusses the Turkish movie Valley of the Wolves—Iraq (Kurtlar Vadisi—Irak), a blockbuster in Turkey in 2006. The movie has made an important mark on the history of Turkish popular culture, not through any artistic achievement, but because of the movie's 'reversed' representations/imaginations. The movie contains favorable views of 'Pax Turca' and 'Pax Islamica' as well as a critique, which is quite anti-American, of the American occ…

  • The Metamorphosis of Metaphors of Vision: "Bridging" Turkey's Location, Role and Identity After the End of the Cold War

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2009•Cited by: 10

    During the Cold War, “buffer” or “bastion” seemed a popular metaphor to describe Turkey. After the Cold War, “bridge,” (and, to some extent, the “crossroad”) metaphor started to dominate the Turkish foreign policy Dışcourse. This article traces the use of “bridge” metaphor in this Dışcourse in the post-Cold War period by the Turkish foreign policy elite. It develops two arguments. First, the word bridge is a “metaphor of vision” combining Turkey'…

  • "Constructing Turkish "exceptionalism: Discourses of liminality and hybridity in post-Cold War Turkish foreign policy

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2011•Cited by: 19•References: 44

  • Foreign Policy During 2011 Parliamentary Elections in Turkey: Both an Issue and Non-issue

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Turkish Studies•2012•Cited by: 3

    This article focuses on the foreign policy sections of 2011 election manifestos of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party) (AKP), the Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People's Party) (CHP), the Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (Nationalist Movement Party) MHP, and the Emek, Demokrasi ve Özgürlük Bloku (Labor, Democracy and Freedom Bloc) (EDÖB) the pre-election Barş ve Demokrasi Partisi (Peace and Democracy Party) (BDP). Foreig…

  • Turkey's Involvement in the F-35 Program: One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward

    Open Access•Serhat Güvenç, Lerna K Yanik et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal Canada s…•2013•Cited by: 2

    Turkey has been involved in the international consortium that builds the F-35 J°int Strike Fighter (JSF) since 1999. The relationship between Turkey and the consortium may appear to be rocky, however, because of Turkey's many hesitations to commit to the JSF program. In this article we argue that these hesitations are strategic, designed to extract maximum benefits for Turkey's defence industry from the consortium manufacturing the fighter jets. …

  • Inter-Asian (Post-)Neoliberalism

    Emel Akçali, Lerna K Yanık et al.•ARTICLE•Asian journal of social science•2015•Cited by: 2

  • Bringing the Empire Back In: The Gradual Discovery of the Ottoman Empire in Turkish Foreign Policy

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Die Welt des Islams•2016•Cited by: 2

    This article traces the emergence of references to the Ottoman Empire in the discourse and practice of Turkish foreign policy since the late 1940s. It argues that present-day emphasis on the Ottoman Empire and its legacy in Turkey has not happened in a vacuum, but rather has been a gradual process that has taken place over decades, helping to justify Turkey’s foreign policy. The article also shows that politicians from different sections of the p…

  • Of Celebrities and Landmarks: Space, State and the Making of "Cosmopolitan" Turkey

    Lerna K Yanik, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2017•Cited by: 1

    This paper analyses the (re)production of Turkey’s liminal-hybrid representations through a combination of sports and music celebrity interventions on a specific landmark. It shows that a country’s representations can be reinforced and reaffirmed with the help of celebrities performing their talent on landmarks such as the Bosphorus Bridge and (in some cases) placing another landmark – Ortaköy Mosque – in the backdrop. Combined with the role of c…

  • Entrenching geopolitical imaginations: Brand(ing) Turkey through Orhan Pamuk

    Open Access•Cagri Yalkin, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 20

  • Cultural heritage as status seeking: The international politics of Turkey’s restoration wave

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanık, Jelena Subotić•ARTICLE•Cooperation and Conflict•2020•Cited by: 13•References: 16

    This article explores the relationship between cultural heritage politics and international status-seeking. We advance a two-fold typology of status-seeking that explains why states engage in cultural heritage restoration practices at home and abroad. First, cultural heritage restoration can be an easy way to signal state respect of its multicultural past while providing cover for continuing anti-multicultural policies of the present. States with…

  • 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

    Open Access•Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Lerna K Yanık et al.•ARTICLE•International Studies Review•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 27

    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” an…

  • Science and flags: Deconstructing Turkey’s Antarctic strategy

    Lerna K Yanık, H Emrah Karaoguz•ARTICLE•Third World Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    This article explores Turkey’s recent increased interest in the Antarctic by deconstructing how this interest contributes to the making of Antarctic nationalism(s). It makes two arguments. First, Turkey’s status-seeking by being present in the Antarctic contributes to Antarctic nationalism(s) by invoking three distinct yet overlapping strands of nationalisms – banal, pragmatic-techno and Kemalist nationalisms, or what we term assemblage nationali…

  • The making of Turkish exceptionalism: The west, the rest and unreconciled issues from the past

    Open Access•Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Turkish Studies•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    This article has two main goals. The first is to examine the role of politics of space and time in making Turkey’s international relations. The second is to answer a more general question: what happens to a non-Western state like Turkey that cannot eliminate ‘differences’ that mark that state as non-Western? My answer is that these states handle these ‘differences’ that do not entirely disappear by creating exceptionalism. Exceptionalism rebrands…

  • Turkey and the Russian invasion of Ukraine: An interplay of bloc (de)formation, recognition and asymmetric interdependencies

    Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    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 …

  • The rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire’s religiously inspired status symbols

    Open Access•Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Cooperation and Conflict•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    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 a…

  • Populist hyperpersonalization and politicization of foreign policy institutions

    Open Access•Özgür Özdamar, Lerna K Yanik et al.•ARTICLE•International Affairs•2024•Cited by: 3

    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 securi…

  • Identity, Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Sovereignty: Narrating Turkey and Greece Through Ayasofya

    Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Chara Karagiannopoulou et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Balkan and Near…•2025

    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’…

  • Heritage geopolitics: Hegemonic meaning-making, international orders, and the heritagisation of traditional archery in Turkey and beyond

    Open Access•Fulya Hisarlıoğlu, Lerna K Yanık•ARTICLE•Review of International Studies•2025

    This piece argues that to understand how cultural heritage functions as a form of power at the international level, it is essential to deconstruct the ‘productive politics’ that surround and shape the material and symbolic spatial formations of heritage and heritagisation. To this aim, by integrating critical accounts on heritage politics, geopolitics, and biopolitics, this piece deconstructs the dynamics of Turkey’s heritagisation of traditional…

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