R2P and Turkish Foreign Policy

Libya and Syria in Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID12960685
AuthorsVolkan Şeyşane (0000-0002-0990-604X, Istanbul University, corresponding author), Çiğdem Çelik (0000-0002-5936-0196, Istanbul University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume7
Issue3-4
Pages376-397
Publication date2015-10-30
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Responsibility to Protect (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1875-984X • E-ISSN: 1875-9858
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/1875984x-00704008
OpenAlexW2208477876
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited4

This paper analyses the articulation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) into Turkish foreign policy ( tfp ) during the Justice and Development Party ( Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi , akp ) era. R2P has particularly become significant when the uprisings turned into full-scale civil wars in Libya and Syria. Therefore, this study examines tfp towards Libya and Syria in the framework of R2P. It argues that there is a close correlation between Turkey’s support of R2P and recently increasing emphasis on the normative foundations of its foreign policy in general. It also discusses that Ankara has appeared as an active advocate of the norm insofar as it adopted a more ambitious policy agenda, particularly in the context of the Syrian civil war. However, this paper concludes that, due to Turkey’s pragmatic approach, R2P has turned into a justification tool in the discourse of tfp makers for their regional aspirations

Context (archaeology · Economic Justice · Foreign policy · Human rights · Norm (philosophy · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · Turkish · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · History · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security

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